Update - Anonymous denies it is behind The Pirate Bay DDoS attack and Wikileaks has been under DDoS attack for the last three days and The Pirate Bay returns, Anonymous hater takes credit for DDoS

The Pirate Bay is not loading for many today. In fact, it hasn't been for hours, even up to a full 24 for some. The reason is simple: The Pirate Bay has revealed it is currently being hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack by an unknown party.

When I heard it was down this morning, I first tried accessing it myself. I even tried getting to the blog for some news in the hopes that it was being hosted on a different server, but no dice. My colleague David Grober confirmed it wasn't working for him either. A quick check on Facebook and Twitter shows this is a widespread issue.

That being said, the site isn't down worldwide. At the time of writing, Down for everyone or just me says The Pirate Bay is working just fine: "It's just you. http://thepiratebay.se is up." Meanwhile, Is it down right now disagrees: "Thepiratebay.se is DOWN for everyone. It is not just you. The server is not responding..."

The site's Twitter account has been relatively quiet. Facebook is a different story. The Pirate Bay announced the attack today on the world's largest social network:

We're under a quite big ddos attack. We don't know who's behind it but we have our suspicions... Once we've awaken our tech guru Winston Q we'll get on the issue.

The Pirate Bay has since followed up with two more messages confirming that the site is still under attack and down for many. The last one was posted on Facebook two hours ago.

Just last week, The Pirate Bay criticized the hacktivist group Anonymous for executing a DDoS attack on its behalf. I don't think the two events are related, but you never know.

This is a developing story. I will update you as I learn more.

Update - Anonymous denies it is behind The Pirate Bay DDoS attack and Wikileaks has been under DDoS attack for the last three days and The Pirate Bay returns, Anonymous hater takes credit for DDoS

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