Hacked New York Times website still down; alternate site working

[adirondacker]

Last edited Wed Aug 28, 2013, 02:09 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: LA Times

The New York Times' website was experiencing widespread outages Tuesday afternoon as the apparent result of a malicious attack on the company's domain name registrar.

By Alana Semuels and Jim Puzzanghera

August 28, 2013, 6:19 a.m.
WASHINGTON -- It’s a battle between one of the nation’s largest newspapers and what is suspected to be a group of hackers supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad, and for the moment at least, the hackers appear to be winning.

The New York Times website was down for large parts of Tuesday after being hacked in an attack for which the group known as the Syrian Electronic Army took credit, and was down again as of 9 a.m. EDT Wednesday.

Users trying to access www.nytimes.com received a message saying the server could not be found. The news organization set up a bare-bones alternate site, where readers could view some news stories. A message on the New York Times Twitter feed directed readers to that site and routed story links posted on Twitter there as well.



Read more: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-new-york-times-website-syria-hackers-20130828,0,2245108.story

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I was wondering what was going on, since it is my homepage, and wouldn't load either yesterday or today.
Just an FYI.


Edited to add their alternate site...
http://news.nytco.com/

[FourScore]

1. Has facebook also crashed? I can't get in.

First my firewall went nuts saying it was blocking all kinds of viruses (at least 40-50 came up). I unplugged the internet, and when I went back on, I can't access facebook.

[adirondacker]

2. No idea about Facebook, since I don't subscribe. Perhaps others can chime in. nt

[JDPriestly]

3. No doubt our government is trying to scare us into being submissive about the surveillance.

Syrian Electronic Army????????

Are we supposed to believe that it isn't our own people? I am totally skeptic when it comes to our government.

Why would any Syrians be interested in the NY Times, but not interested in Fox News or CNN?

This does not seem plausible to me. Any group can take the name Syrian Electronic Army.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. My theory: retaliation by an online reader who's frustrated by the three free articles per month.

[adirondacker]

5. It's 10, and you can multiply that by the number of browsers and PC's you have :) nt

Ironically, I would pay the subscription if I could afford it. :/

[no_hypocrisy]

6. NYT stopped me at 3 this week. I'll see if I get 10 in September.