WikiLeaks Forced to Change Domain Name

The secret-leaking website has moved to a Swiss server after becoming the target of multiple hacking attempts.

U.S. system provider EveryDNS has evicted WikiLeaks, saying that multiple hacking attempts against the website were threatening its 500,000 other customers. Formally at www.wikileaks.org, the site has now been moved to www.wikileaks.ch. It’s unclear who was behind the attacks but earlier this week Bahnhof, the website’s Swedish server, confirmed that WikiLeaks was also the target of a cyber attack days before it began releasing thousands of internal U.S. diplomatic communications. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can hardly complain; he was convicted of hacking into Nortel’s master terminal in 1991. Amazon.com kicked WikiLeaks off of its servers on Wednesday after coming under scrutiny from U.S. government officials who condemned the whistleblowing website as a security threat.