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12 December 2010
Last updated at 17:46 ET
The European sites of web retailer Amazon have suffered a temporary failure, amid ongoing threats against major sites by pro-Wikileak activists.
British, French, German, Austrian and Italian sites were down for about 30 minutes on Sunday during a peak pre-Christmas shopping period.
A group of cyber activists, Anonymous, is hitting firms that withdrew services from whistle-blowing site Wikileaks.
There has been no official comment from Amazon or from Anonymous.
Amazon sites ending .it, .de, .uk, .fr and .at - which are all hosted in Dublin - were unavailable for about half an hour at about 2115 GMT on Sunday, according to a Twitter posting by web monitoring firm Netcraft.
However, all servers are now back up and running after a brief delay, the firm says.
There were no clear indications that Anonymous was responsible for the disruption to Amazon, and the group has not said it carried out an attack.
Howver, it did plan to mount a distributed denial-of-service (D-Dos) attack on Amazon several days ago.
On Friday Anonymous publicly abandoned plans to hit Amazon, saying they did not have the "forces".
"We cannot attack Amazon, currently. The previous schedule was to do so, but we don't have enough forces," read one message on Twitter on Friday.
The group's Operation Payback Campaign has also targeted the websites of Paypal, Mastercard and Visa.
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British, French, German, Austrian and Italian sites were down for about 30 minutes on Sunday during a peak pre-Christmas shopping period.
A group of cyber activists, Anonymous, is hitting firms that withdrew services from whistle-blowing site Wikileaks.
There has been no official comment from Amazon or from Anonymous.
Amazon sites ending .it, .de, .uk, .fr and .at - which are all hosted in Dublin - were unavailable for about half an hour at about 2115 GMT on Sunday, according to a Twitter posting by web monitoring firm Netcraft.
However, all servers are now back up and running after a brief delay, the firm says.
There were no clear indications that Anonymous was responsible for the disruption to Amazon, and the group has not said it carried out an attack.
Howver, it did plan to mount a distributed denial-of-service (D-Dos) attack on Amazon several days ago.
On Friday Anonymous publicly abandoned plans to hit Amazon, saying they did not have the "forces".
"We cannot attack Amazon, currently. The previous schedule was to do so, but we don't have enough forces," read one message on Twitter on Friday.
The group's Operation Payback Campaign has also targeted the websites of Paypal, Mastercard and Visa.
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