WikiLeaks moves hosting base after attack puts it offline

THE WikiLeaks website came under another powerful internet-based attack making it inaccessible for hours.

The site appeared to have responded by switching its main hosting base from Sweden to the US, making it available again.

The site, which distributed masses of US diplomatic documents on Sunday, said that it was under a “distributed denial of service attack,” a method commonly used by hackers to slow down or bring down sites.