Less than two weeks after suffering a prolonged website outage, the New York Times was knocked offline again on Tuesday—apparently as the result of a malicious hacking attack.
The paper’s main webpage was intermittently unavailable for several hours Tuesday afternoon and remained that way as of 5:30 p.m. ET.
In an initial Twitter post, the Times blamed the outage on “technical problems.” But later, the newspaper’s director of corporate communication indicated that the site might have been knocked offline in a hacker attack. “re: http://nytimes.com - initial assessment - issue is most likely result of malicious external attack. working to fix,” Murphy said in a tweet.
In another tweet, the Times said it would continue to publish stories as it worked to resolve the issue. The message contained a link to a story on Syria with an IP address registered with the company that bypassed its DNS.
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