New DelhiWhistle-blowing website WikiLeaks claimed it is under attack from a computer-hacking operation ahead of release of secret US documents.
"El Pais, Le Monde, Speigel, Guardian & NYT will publish many US embassy cables tonight, even if WikiLeaks goes down. We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack," said Wikileaks in a tweet.
Minister of External Affairs SM Krishna said on Sunday that he is curious but not worried over the new potentially embarrassing release of classified US diplomatic documents by WikiLeaks.
Even as WikiLeaks is all set for its third major expose containing an estimated 3 million classified documents, the Obama administration has appealed against the release of the documents terming it illegal.
The US believes these will relate to sensitive diplomatic cables sent to by American diplomats to the US State department and will jeopardize counter terror operations .
The US goverment had warned India on Saturday night that damaging secrets were about to be laid bare.
On whether US government has got in touch with India on the WikiLeaks, Krishna said, "We have been out of the country for the last three four days. So I do not know whether anything has come from them. We have read in the media that the (fresh) WikiLeaks (documents) might appear very soon."
Yesterday, the US had warned India and other key governments across the world about a new potentially embarrassing release of classified documents by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks which may harm the American interests and create tension in its ties with its "friends".
On whether India was concerned what the leaks might contain, the minister said "Indian government is not really concerned. But we are certainly interested in finding out what this WikiLeaks are all about because they say that they are going to put on the web 4 million documents. So we will watch with interest."
(With PTI inputs)
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