London: The WikiLeaks website, which contains thousands of US embassy cables, has crashed in an apparent cyberattack.
The anti-secrecy organisation said in a Twitter message Tuesday that Wikileaks.org "is presently under attack."
Efforts to view the WikiLeaks site and view links to cables were unsuccessful.
The apparent cyberattack comes as the accelerated public disclosure of tens of thousands of previously unreleased State Department cables by the WikiLeaks organization has raised new concerns about the exposure of confidential US embassy sources. That has created a fresh source of diplomatic setbacks and embarrassment for the Obama administration, current and former American officials said Tuesday.
WikiLeaks posted alternate URLs on Twittter through which the contents of the website could be accessed. "Use WikiLeaks Luxembourg http://wikileaks.lu/ or our search system," a tweet from WikiLeaks said.
(With inputs from agencies)
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