The New York Times Web site went down Tuesday afternoon, after what the paper’s spokeswoman called a “malicious external attack.”
Readers who tried to access the site started seeing error messages as earlier as 12 p.m. PT, according to Bloomberg. This is the second time this month the site has had an outage. About two weeks ago, the site experienced the same problem, but the Times said then that it was an internal issue despite reports of a cyber attack.
The Time’s VP of corporate communications Eileen Murphy tweeted that Tuesday’s outage was “most likely result of malicious external attack.”
re: http://t.co/BQE1fJ3uLx – initial assessment – issue is most likely result of malicious external attack. working to fix
— Eileen Murphy (@NYTeileen) August 27, 2013
According to a tweet noted by TechCrunch, it appears the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) hackers group is responsible for the attack. Reports say SEA is also responsible for … [Read more]
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