WikiLeaks site crashes

The WikiLeaks website, which contains thousands of US embassy cables, has crashed during an apparent cyberattack

The controversial WikiLeaks website, which contains thousands of US embassy cables, has crashed during an apparent cyberattack.

The anti-secrecy organisation said in a Twitter message on Tuesday that WikiLeaks.org "is presently under attack".

Efforts to view the Wikileaks site and view links to cables were unsuccessful.

The apparent cyberattack comes as the accelerated public disclosure of tens of thousands of previously unreleased US State Department cables by the WikiLeaks organisation has raised new concerns about the exposure of confidential US embassy sources.

That has created a fresh source of diplomatic setbacks and embarrassment for the Obama administration, current and former American officials said on Tuesday.

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