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Sources agree that what happened had the appearance of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. How it happened — Heise.de says reportedly IoT was involved [1]] and a newly created Twitter account (that account would be [2] according to Netblocks) claimed having wanted to "test new devices" — is not determined as of yet. We've had some disagreement on the scope of the attack. While other sources, notably Netblocks.org [3] have it that the U.S. was also affected ("in two phases, with the first briefly causing high latencies in the Americas from 6:00 p.m. UTC, and the second resulting in more severe outages across Western, Central and Eastern Europe, with disruptions also affecting the Middle East and South Asia"), our current two sources, The Independent [4] and Deutsche Welle [5] have what I resume as "in Europe and parts of the Middle East" (The Independent: "for users across Europe, and a number of places in the Middle East"). According to Netblocks.org, the attack was over on Saturday 02:40 UTC [6]. TechCrunch.com [7] and The Independent have Downdetector.com [8][9] as a source. This is the statement from m:Wikimedia Deutschland on Twitter and this is the statement on the Wikimedia Foundation main web page. Regards. Wakari07 (talk) 18:27, 7 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
