WikiLeaks, which has released tens of thousands of emails and documents from hackings of the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton's inner circle, said on Tuesday that it has come under 'unrelenting' cyber attacks.

Numerous visitors to the anti-secrecy organization's website reported on Tuesday that they received error messages when they tried to open up links to emails from the hacked account of John Podesta, Clinton's campaign chairman.

'We have been under unrelenting DDoS attacks over the last 24 hours,' the organization tweeted on Tuesday.

Initially, the attacks were reported to have prevented WikiLeaks from releasing additional batches of Podesta's emails.

This Twitter user speculated that WikiLeaks came under a DDoS cyber attack on Tuesday after encountering an error message on its site

WikiLeaks confirmed the Twitter user's assessment, saying that it indeed had come under cyber attacks

As of this writing, however, emails that were released on Tuesday were accessible through the WikiLeaks website.

DDoS refers to Distributed Denial of Service, a kind of cyber assault that usually involves thousands of unique IP addresses.

These kinds of attacks are designed to shut down a network resource, thereby denying access to it from users.

The timing of the attacks is sure to raise eyebrows, given that it came on the same day that Americans go to the polls to elect a new president.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (left) denied that his organization's leaks of hacked emails from Clinton campaign chair John Podesta (right) were aimed at influencing the election

In a statement posted online (above), Assange wrote that his organization would have revealed information about Donald Trump if it had any

WikiLeaks has been accused of trying to influence the election and sway American public opinion to Donald Trump, the Republican nominee.

It has thus far released thousands of emails from Podesta's private Gmail account.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denied on Tuesday that he intended to influence the presidential election by publishing copies of emails linked to Clinton and suggested he would do the same to Donald Trump, if he could.

The secret-spilling website in recent months has published troves of electronic messages sent to or by people in Clinton's campaign, disclosing embarrassing, if not damaging, inside conversations.

Bill and Hillary Clinton, vote in Chappaqua, New York, on Tuesday. WikiLeaks has released thousands of emails linked to Clinton in recent weeks

'This is not due to a personal desire to influence the outcome of the election,' Assange said in a statement, denying that the publications were designed to bolster support for Green Party candidate Jill Stein or to take revenge on the Democratic Party for the jailing of Chelsea Manning.

Manning, a former intelligence analyst in Iraq, was sentenced to 35 years in prison in 2013 for passing secret US government documents to WikiLeaks.

Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for four years evading legal proceedings in Sweden, indicated WikiLeaks would not hesitate to publish material on Clinton's Republican rival, if it received the right material and judged it newsworthy.

'To date, we have not received information on Donald Trump's campaign, or Jill Stein's campaign, or Gary Johnson's campaign or any of the other candidates that fulfills our stated editorial criteria,' he said.

The US government has said Russia was responsible for hacking at least some of the emails released by WikiLeaks - including those from the private account of Podesta.