Stanislav Kozlovsky, executive director of Wikimedia.ru (which supports the Russian version of Wikipedia) said that difficulties in accessing Wikipedia were caused by a hacker DDoS attack. Words lead the way TASS.
“The Wikimedia Foundation witnessed a DDoS attack on its servers over the weekend,” Kozlovsky said.
According to him, the issue affected traffic on Wikimedia sites from the United States and parts of Europe, including the Russian Federation.
Kozlovsky also noted that the Fund’s site reliability team promptly took the necessary countermeasures to overcome the problem and eliminated the failures.
July 23, a service that provides online information about the status of websites, Downdetector knowledgeableThe Wikipedia website crashed. Russian users could not reach the web encyclopedia page. A few hours later, it was learned that the Wikipedia website was. restored works after a major outage.
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Source: Gazeta
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