Outages Hit WikiLeaks, Twitter

Twitter's website briefly went down and WikiLeaks says it is under attack.

ByABC News
November 7, 2016, 1:45 AM
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The Twitter Inc. logo is displayed on the screen of an Apple Inc. iPhone 6s in this arranged photograph taken in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016. Twitter Inc. is changing its timeline to display popular tweets first, instead of the latest posts, a long-anticipated step thats likely to anger its most passionate users. Twitter is scheduled to report quarterly earnings results following the close of U.S. financial markets on February 10. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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— -- Twitter's website briefly went down early Monday morning, shortly after WikiLeaks reported a cyber attack on its email publication servers.

Twitter has not confirmed the outage, but websites that track the responsiveness of web servers said that an outage hit the social media website and lasted for a few minutes ending at around 1:30 a.m. Monday.

WikiLeaks posted a message to its Facebook account claiming an ongoing denial-of-service attack on its servers after reporting a brief outage.

"We are still under a DoS attack on our e-mail publication servers and it appears that Twitter is down as well, we are unable to confirm if this is an attack on twitter at this time," the post read.

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