Update: Added Wikimedia Foundation's statement below and made a correction to denote it was only the Meta-Wiki that was vandalized. The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a ...

Wikipedia Forced to Lock Down Edits Over JavaScript That Could Delete Pages The nonprofit that oversees Wikipedia briefly enforced a 'read-only' mode on Thursday morning as users spotted code designed ...

Wikipedia briefly went into "read-only mode" this morning and disabled article editing after a malicious piece of code was detected that could delete entries. Initially, Wikipedia editors uncovered ...

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