Portal talk:Current events/2019 September 6

Attack on Wikipedia
Sources agree that what happened had the appearance of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. How it happened — Heise.de says reportedly IoT was involved ] and a newly created Twitter account (that account would be according to Netblocks) claimed having wanted to "test new devices" — is not determined as of yet. We've had some disagreement on the scope of the attack. While other sources, notably Netblocks.org have it that the U.S. was also affected ("in two phases, with the first briefly causing high latencies in the Americas from 6:00 p.m. UTC, and the second resulting in more severe outages across Western, Central and Eastern Europe, with disruptions also affecting the Middle East and South Asia"), our current two sources, The Independent  and Deutsche Welle  have what I resume as "in Europe and parts of the Middle East" (The Independent: "for users across Europe, and a number of places in the Middle East"). According to Netblocks.org, the attack was over on Saturday 02:40 UTC. TechCrunch.com and The Independent have Downdetector.com   as a source. This is the statement from Wikimedia Deutschland on Twitter and this is the statement on the Wikimedia Foundation main web page. Regards. Wakari07 (talk) 18:27, 7 September 2019 (UTC)