Millions across the world could not access the site in what some said was the first successful cyber attack against the online encyclopedia

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In September 2019, Wikipedia, the seventh most popular website globally, experienced a major cyberattack that caused widespread outages, primarily in Europe and parts of the Middle East. The attack, identified as a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)...

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