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 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 ...

A recent security incident affected Wikipedia when a self-propagating JavaScript worm began modifying user scripts and vandalizing pages. The problem was first noticed by editors who reported unusual ...