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 Forced to Lock Down Edits Over JavaScript That Could Delete Pages The nonprofit that oversees Wikipedia briefly enforced a 'read-only' mode on Thursday morning as users spotted code designed ...

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 ...