Wikipedia suddenly collapsed globally due to DDoS attack, Vietnam is not affected

The inaccessibility to this page has been announced by thousands of users around the world. As a result, current users cannot access the Wikipedia home page on computers, phones, and tablets when the page repeatedly reports an error.

According to the DownDetector tool, the phenomenon starts at 1am today and repeats at 10am in many parts of the world, but takes place most in North America and Europe, with countries Affected households include Poland, France, Germany, and Italy. In Vietnam, as of 10h24 local time, users can still access the Vietnamese version of the Wikipedia page normally.

The collapse of Wikipedia takes place mainly in the United States and Europe

On its official Twitter page, the Wikipedia admin team confirmed its inability to access the page, claiming "Wikipedia collapsed due to cyber attacks," and said the admin team. are working to fix the problem.

According to Wikimedia Germany, the Wikipedia server is currently under widespread DDoS (denial of service) attacks, making it impossible for users to access the site normally. At the moment, the motives and source of DDoS attacks on Wikipedia are not yet clear.

Wikipedia says that inaccessible user status is caused by a site being hacked

Before that, a series of social networking platforms such as Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp also encountered an unreachable problem in July. With Wikipedia, this extremely popular open encyclopedia has also encountered. Similar situation in September 2017, affecting the access of hundreds of thousands of users.

Currently, Wikipedia is supporting a total of 300 different languages, with about 46 million articles accessed by 1.4 billion unique users per month, according to data from 2018. Wikipedia was founded with the goal of providing provide free, open knowledge to all people around the world. This site is based primarily on the financial contributions of users around the world, with about 300 full-time employees worldwide.

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