WikiLeaks published DNCLeak2, but someone DDoSed it

WikiLeaks confirmed that the email publication server suffered a massive DDoS attack since it published a new set of DNC hacked emails dubbed as DNCLeak2.

A couple of days before the 2016 Presidential election, WikiLeaks has published a new set of emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee (DNC). The new set, dubbed DNCLeak2, includes 8,200 emails, the messages are added to the already leaked over 50,000 emails stolen from the DNC.

In one of the leaked emails, the former Clinton Foundation fundraiser Doug Band was slamming Chelsea Clinton for allegedly using the funds from the Clinton Foundation to pay for her wedding.

Early Monday morning WikiLeaks was targeted by a massive DDoS attack a few hours after the publishing of the DNCLeak2. The organization announced the attack via Twitter that shortly after it has released the DNC emails.

Evidently, someone disagreed the Wikileak’s decision of releasing this trove of email before the presidential election.

Wikileaks was not the unique website that reported an outage, also Twitter went down for at least 30 minutes, but the two events appear to be uncorrelated.