File:May 2018 Wikimedia accounts hack attacks.png

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English: A graph depicting the mass attempts to break into Wikimedia user accounts on May 3, May 4–5, May 6, and May 7–8, 2018. The mass-hacking attempts came in four waves, with around 15,000 attempted account break-ins per hour in the first wave, and at least 11,400 attempted break-ins per hour in the second wave. On May 6, there was a much smaller attack, before the mass account-breaking attacks resumed on May 7. In the fourth and final wave of attacks, there were around 10,500 account-breaking attempts per hour from May 7 to 8. Over 642,000 accounts may have experienced at least one hacking attempt. At the time, this was the largest account-breaking cyberattack that Wikimedia had experienced. In July 2018–March 2019, a much larger cyberattack followed, which targeted mostly administrator accounts.
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Derived from the graph at Grafana - Authentication metrics
Author BlueHypercane761

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current10:54, 12 May 2018Thumbnail for version as of 10:54, 12 May 20181,337 × 678 (81 KB)BlueHypercane761Updated file with the 4th (latest) wave of hack attacks.
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