Wikileaks ‘hacked ahead of secret US document release’

Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks says it has come under attack from a computer-hacking operation, ahead of a release of secret US documents.”We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack,” it said on its Twitter feed earlier.It added that several newspapers will go ahead and publish the documents released to them by Wikileaks even if the site goes down.
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