New York:
Hours ahead of the leak of millions of secret documents, whistle-blower website WikiLeaks had on Sunday claimed it was under a cyber attack but said the documents would be made public through several leading newspapers.
In a Twitter message, the whistleblower website had said: "We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack."
It had added that even if its website goes down, a number of newspapers will go ahead and publish the documents released to them.
Ahead of the release of the potentially embarrassing documents, which the US fears could harm its relations with several countries, the American administration had asked the website to refrain from making the classified documents public. It has asked it to return the "illegally obtained" papers, insisting that their leak would "endanger the lives of countless individuals."
The Twitter message from the website said El Pais, Le Monde, Speigel, Guardian and New York Times newspapers will publish many US embassy cables on Sunday Night, even if WikiLeaks goes down.
The website has already released thousands of documents on the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In October WikiLeaks released four lakh secret US files on Iraq war detailing abuse of Iraqi prisoners in US custody, rights violations and civilian deaths.
Earlier in July, the website had published tens of thousands of secret documents on the war in Afghanistan.
In a Twitter message, the whistleblower website had said: "We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack."
It had added that even if its website goes down, a number of newspapers will go ahead and publish the documents released to them.
Ahead of the release of the potentially embarrassing documents, which the US fears could harm its relations with several countries, the American administration had asked the website to refrain from making the classified documents public. It has asked it to return the "illegally obtained" papers, insisting that their leak would "endanger the lives of countless individuals."
The Twitter message from the website said El Pais, Le Monde, Speigel, Guardian and New York Times newspapers will publish many US embassy cables on Sunday Night, even if WikiLeaks goes down.
The website has already released thousands of documents on the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In October WikiLeaks released four lakh secret US files on Iraq war detailing abuse of Iraqi prisoners in US custody, rights violations and civilian deaths.
Earlier in July, the website had published tens of thousands of secret documents on the war in Afghanistan.
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