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Confirmed from Sunshine Press, Wikileaks’ PR people: Last Monday’s crash occurred because of the large amount of traffic generated by the graphic photos of people killed in the Tibet riots, and also because of a DDOS attack.

Definition of a DDOS attack, courtesy techweb.com’s TechEncyclopedia:

An assault on a network that floods it with so many additional requests that regular traffic is either slowed or completely interrupted. Unlike a virus or worm, which can cause severe damage to databases, a denial of service attack interrupts network service for some period. A distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack uses multiple computers throughout the network that it has previously infected. The computers act as “zombies” and work together to send out bogus messages, thereby increasing the amount of phony traffic.

And an example of the photos that drew so many visitors:

Sunshine Press did not say where the DDOS attack originated.