Amazon.com stopped hosting the WikiLeaks website, a day after the site was forced to move from its service provider in Sweden to escape a cyber-attack.WikiLeaks, sparked U.S. condemnation several days ago for releasing classified government documents to major newspapers worldwide, announced the move on Twitter Wednesday. The rogue site says it has moved to a service provider in Europe after being "ousted" from Amazon.com. Amazon.com apparently under pressure to drop WikiLeaks. Sen. Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, acknowledges that his staff contacted Amazon.com for an explanation of its decision to host WikiLeaks. Amazon.com notified the senator Wednesday that it had stopped hosting the site. Documents disclosed unflattering descriptions of Western leaders, such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
The Obama administration has ordered government agencies to develop stricter criteria for getting access to classified data and has ordered an investigation to find the source of the leaked documents.
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