Wikipedia Hit by Massive DDoS Attack, Knocking Site Offline in Europe
A large-scale distributed denial of service attack forces Wikipedia offline across Europe and parts of the Middle East. The Wikimedia Foundation is actively working to restore access while condemning the threat to free information.
A massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack knocks Wikipedia offline across large parts of Europe and the Middle East. Users in the UK, Poland, France, Germany, and Italy experience intermittent outages as malicious actors overwhelm the encyclopedia's servers with traffic.
The Wikimedia Foundation confirms the attack is ongoing and states that its Site Reliability Engineering team works hard to stop the disruption and restore access. As one of the world's most popular websites, Wikipedia frequently attracts "bad faith" actors, prompting the organization to maintain dedicated systems and staff to monitor and address evolving cyber threats.
Wikimedia strongly condemns the cyber attack, emphasizing that these takedown attempts threaten everyone's fundamental rights to freely access and share information. The foundation promises to learn from the incident and continues its efforts to bring the global encyclopedia back online for affected readers around the world.