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The coordinated denial-of-service attack used tens of thousands of computers with IPs located around the world, the company said.

The Epoch Timesโ€™ websites have again been targeted in a coordinated mass cyberattack.

Readers and supporters around the world reported that they were unable to access The Epoch Timesโ€™ Chinese and English language websites starting at about 5 p.m. ET on July 20.

According to the head of the companyโ€™s technology department, the incident was a denial-of-service (DOS) attack using tens of thousands of compromised computers with IPs located around the world to overwhelm The Epoch Timesโ€™ servers.

โ€œThe large-scale, coordinated attack attempted to exhaust Epoch Times web serversโ€™ computing and bandwidth resources to impact their ability to serve legitimate users,โ€ he said.

The large volume attackโ€”which particularly targeted The Epoch Timesโ€™ Chinese language websiteโ€”lasted more than four hours.

The attacks started a few days earlier but peaked on July 20โ€”a sensitive date for Chinaโ€™s ruling regime.

On July 20, 1999, the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began a deadly campaign to eradicate a popular spiritual practice in China called Falun Gong. Practitioners in the United States established The Epoch Times in 2000 to warn the world of the CCPโ€™s ongoing human rights atrocities.

Every year on July 20, The Epoch Times publishes news and updates about the CCPโ€™s persecution of Falun Gong. When the persecution started, the estimated one in 13 Chinese people who were practicing the spiritual discipline were made enemies of the state overnight.

A large but unknown number of practitioners have since been illegally coerced, detained, brainwashed, tortured, or killed for their beliefs. Many have been victims of the CCPโ€™s live organ harvesting crimes, first reported as occurring in state-run hospitals.

Political figures from various countries expressed their support for Falun Gongโ€”a spiritual self-improvement practice that teaches practitioners to live by the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and toleranceโ€”on the anniversary this year. The U.S. State Department issued a statement calling on the CCP to stop suppressing Falun Gong and release all those imprisoned for their beliefs.

The Epoch Timesโ€™ technology department said the company believes the DOS attack on July 20 was linked to the CCP.

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