Trying to access WikiLeaks? It's down at the moment, with its primary host in the United States apparently pulling the plug after "mass attacks," according to WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks was booted from Amazon servers on Dec. 1, causing a brief outage, and tonight it went down again. The site had migrated to Swedish servers, per the AP.
The WikiLeaks Twitter account (@WikiLeaks) took a while to respond to the outage, but finally spoke up, stating "WikiLeaks,org domain killed by US everydns.net after claimed mass attacks."
The DNS outage means that the Wikileaks.org domain name is down worldwide.
The Pentagon said Wednesday it could take down WikiLeaks if it wanted to, but to that point had decided against it. There have been reports that Russia is interested in shutting the site down.
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