Outages Hit WikiLeaks, Twitter

Twitter's website briefly went down early Monday morning, shortly after WikiLeaks reported a cyber attack on its email publication servers.

Twitter has not confirmed the outage, but websites that track the responsiveness of web servers said that an outage hit the social media website and lasted for a few minutes ending at around 1:30 a.m. Monday.

WikiLeaks posted a message to its Facebook account claiming an ongoing denial-of-service attack on its servers after reporting a brief outage.

"We are still under a DoS attack on our e-mail publication servers and it appears that Twitter is down as well, we are unable to confirm if this is an attack on twitter at this time," the post read.

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