Wikipedia from malicious network attacks, resulting in a number of countries of the website offline. The attack occurred Sept. 7, 2019, primarily due to the impact of European and Middle Eastern customers. downdetector.com recorded the attack site and received thousands of reports.
of a 'distributed denial of service attack'. Since the DDoS attack, the requests come from a variety of sources, it is not possible to block the attacker without completely stop communicating with the network. "3/3
- WikimediaDeutschland (@WikimediaDE) September 6, 2019
Wikimedia German Twitter account that the company's Web site is undergoing large-scale distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks. DDOS attacks can cause a lot of traffic target server sprawl, thereby undermining the goal of service available to the user.
In an official blog post , he wrote:
"As one of the world's most popular website, Wikipedia sometimes attract" bad faith "role. Together we operate with the rest of the network in an increasingly complex and complex environment, evolving threats. Because of this, Wikimedia community and the Wikimedia Foundation has created a special system and staff to regularly monitor and address risk. If a problem arises, we will learn, we will improve and we'll be ready for the next time.
We condemn these types of attacks. They do not just let Wikipedia offline. Predatory attack threat to everyone's freedom to access and share information fundamental rights. We Wikimedia Foundation is dedicated to the movement and protection of these rights for everyone.
Now, whether you read Wikipedia in the world, we will continue working to restore access. We will keep in touch with you.