New York Times Blames New Website Outage on ‘Malicious External Attack’
Posted in: UncategorizedThe Syrian Electronic Army is a group of hackers who support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Earlier this month, the Syrian Electronic Army hacked the Washington Post’s site, where for a brief time visitors were redirected to the organization’s page. The Post was only the latest in a string of news organizations targeted by the group this year.
Also on Tuesday afternoon, Twitter was briefly hindered — though it wasn’t knocked out of service entirely — by an attack for which the Syrian Electronic Army took credit.
When the Times site went down, some readers took to Twitter to inquire about the outage or make jokes warmed over from two weeks ago, when the Times experienced its last website outage. The company blamed that episode on a regularly scheduled internal update. As it did two weeks ago, the Times resorted to publishing important stories on its Facebook page.
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