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WikiLeaks CyberWar Update: Is Amazon UK Down?


             

 DateSunday, December 12, 2010 at 21:02 | AuthorScott Lucas in ,

UPDATE 13 DECEMBER: Amazon says a hardware failure, rather than an attack, took down its European sites for about 45 minutes on Sunday night.

A spokeswoman said, "The brief interruption to our European retail sites earlier today was due to hardware failure in our European datacenter network and not the result of a DDOS attempt."

UPDATE 2145 GMT: All Amazon sites in Europe are back on-line.

UPDATE 2140 GMT: Amazon is now reporting "Performance Issues" with Amazon Simple Notification Service (Ireland) and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Ireland).

UPDATE 2120 GMT: It is reported that the outage is because Amazon Data Services for Europe, based in Dublin, is down.

A status check confirms "Performance Issues" for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Ireland): " We are investigating elevated error rates and latencies for the EC2 APIs in the EU-WEST-1 region."

UPDATE 2110 GMT: Amazon France, Amazon Germany, and Amazon Italy are also down.

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Just before 2100 GMT, chatter started circulating that Amazon's British website is down. We have just tried to get access and failed.

The group Anonymous, which took down sites such as MasterCard, Visa, and Switzerland Post Finance in "Operation Payback", also tried a Denial of Service attack on amazon.com earlier this week but failed. 

The attacks on the financial and electronic support sites began when, after pressure from the US Government, they withdrew service for WikiLeaks.

We will monitor the situation.

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