Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Successful Cyber Attack Against The New York Times Is Being Reported

A man speaks on his mobile phone in front of the New York Times building in New York City May 21, 2009. REUTERS/Joel Boh

New York Times Website Was Likely Hacked, Company Says -- Reuters

(Reuters) - The website of The New York Times experienced another outage on Tuesday afternoon, likely caused by hackers, the company said.

New York Times Co spokeswoman Eileen Murphy tweeted on Tuesday that the "issue is most likely the result of a malicious external attack," based on an initial assessment.

This is the second time the Times has experienced problems with its website in two weeks. On August 14, the site was down for several hours, an outage likely related to a scheduled maintenance update that occurred within seconds of the website's going down.

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Update: New York Times website down after suspected hacking -- BBC

My Comment: The New York Times website is still down. Also .... the Syrian Electronic Army is taking credit.

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