Update - 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 has been down for hours, or even more than a day for some, and the site confirmed today that the reason is a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack by an unknown party. There has been some speculation that the culprit could be the hacktivist group Anonymous, but the leaderless organization has denied the claims.

Here's what I wrote earlier today:

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.

It turns out that I was right, and leaving the possibility door open was unnecessary. The Twitter account YourAnonNews, which has 582,000 followers, just sent out the following message:

YES The Pirate Bay is down. YES it's under DDoS attack. NO we don't know who from. We'll update as we hear more. http://bit.ly/L75LB3

The Pirate Bay has already hinted that it knows who the attackers may be, so we'll see what they say. Unfortunately, at the time of writing, The Pirate Bay is still down; you can use the following website to access it instead: List of proxies.

In the meantime, here is what The Pirate Bay has said so far on Facebook, in chronological order:

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. Meanwhile, go have a lol at: http://www.dontevenreply.com/ We're still under a ddos attack, go read this while waiting: http://www.copyrightreform.eu/ A bit too nice in our view, but a step in the right direction First TPB is down and now f***** Error 37? Oh the nerd rage is at peak levels on the internet today! http://youtu.be/GsqUZkmO-zk We were loling just like you, then we took an ddos to the knee. But now we're getting back up! Stronger than ever! Proxy list: http://about.piratereverse.info/proxy/list.html

I'll update you if they reveal who they think is behind this.

Update at 2:00 PM PST - The Pirate Bay has confirmed Anonymous' denial:

Just to clarify, we KNOW that it is NOT Anonymous who is behind the ddos attack. Stop spreading rumours like that. We may not agree with Anonymous in everything, but we both want the internet to be open and free. There, now carry on with whatever it is you were doing

Update - 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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