Wikileaks Shut Down

• WikiLeaks followers shut down Swedish government site: Report

  Hackers forced the Swedish government's website offline for several hours on Thursday in a cyber attack in support of WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, a report said.The Aftonbladet daily said the government's official website, http://www.regeringen.se/, was offline for a few hours overnight to Thursday, publishing a screen shot which showe...

• WikiLeaks server goes down: Reports

  WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange turned increasingly to Switzerland on Sunday, dodging a barrage of threats online and in the real world to keep access to a trove of U.S. State Department cables under a Swiss Web address.The elusive founder of the website WikiLeaks said he faced "hundreds of death threats." The site hinged on the Swiss Pirate Part...

• Online payment service PayPal cuts WikiLeaks off from donations

  The online payment service provider PayPal has cut off the account used by WikiLeaks to collect donations, serving another blow to the organization just as it was struggling to keep its website accessible after an American company stopped directing traffic to it. PayPal said in a blog posting that the move was prompted by a violation of its policy,...

• WikiLeaks website shut down worldwide

  WikiLeaks' domain name system provider says it has withdrawn service to the wikileaks.org name.EveryDNS says it dropped the website late on Thursday after it became the "target of multiple distributed denial of service attacks."The American provider says in a statement that the attacks have threatened the stability of its infrastructure. A Wik...