Which major websites have been hit by the PHP security crisis? Here are the biggest so far, from Wikipedia to the…

• A major PHP vulnerability has affected scores of websites
• Many popular sites have gone offline or restricted their operations
• Government sites across Europe have also been affected

A major flaw found in the PHP coding language that powers an untold number of websites across the internet has seen scores of sites taken offline as they attempt to patch out the severe vulnerability.

If you’ve found your favorite website has been unavailable over the last few days, there’s a chance it’s related to this security incident.

Here, we’ve put together a list of as many affected websites as we can find, along with reasoning given by the sites where possible. You can also follow all the latest news in our PHP crisis liveblog.

Global sites

The Wikimedia Foundation said it had taken some services offline to patch the PHP security vulnerability.

The group runs popular websites like Wikipedia and said...

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