Hours ahead of an expected leak of millions of secret documents, WikiLeaks claimed it was under a cyber attack but said the documents would be made public through several leading newspapers.
In a Twitter message, the whistleblower website said: “We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack.”
The Twitter message from the website said El Pais, Le Monde, Speigel, Guardian and New York Times newspapers will publish many US embassy cables tonight, even if WikiLeaks goes down.
The website has already released thousands of documents on the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
