website New York Times hacked, Syrian Electronic Army suspected
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The New York Times website, nytimes.com was hacked Tuesday, the website down for a second time in two weeks, with a group known as the Syrian Electronic Army believed to be behind Tuesday's hack.
About 90 minutes after having problems, the newspaper acknowledged the issue at 4:37 p.m. ET with a post on Twitter, saying the "site is experiencing technical difficulties. We are working on fully restoring the site."
New York Times corporate communications spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said in a tweet that an "initial assessment" showed the "issue is most likely" because of a "malicious external attack."
Security experts pointed to the Syrian Electronic Army, an online group that supports Syrian president Bashar al-Assad as the reason.
Matt Johansen, head of the Threat Research Center at WhiteHat Security, said on Twitter that the New York Times website attack did link to the Syrian Electronic Army, that the website's domain name server was "pointing to an SEA name server."
The group also claimed credit for hacking into Twitter's registry account and changing information there. "We're looking into this," a Twitter spokeswoman told NBC News.
Meanwhile, the SEA posted this on Twitter to brag about its exploit:
The Times had similar website problems Aug. 14, but they were resolved relatively quickly. Tuesday, the Times said:
After its tweet about the site being down, the Times went on to say this:
On Aug. 15, the Washington Post's website was hacked for about 30 minutes, with some readers redirected to the website of the Syrian Electronic Army.
The group previously was linked to other high-profile attacks this year, including taking control of the Associated Press' official Twitter feed in April, and sending out a false message about two explosions at the White House, and injury to the president.
The fake tweet was quickly exposed, but not before it caused a sudden 140-point dip in the Dow Industrial Average.
NBC News is continuing to update this story.
L'accès au site Internet du journal américain '''' a été victime d'une , mardi après-midi. C'est la deuxième de ce mois d'août. Cet incident intervient en pleine guerre civile en , un jour après que les inspecteurs chargés d'enquêter sur l'affaire des armes chimiques aient été pris pour cible par des snipers.

L'attaque provient d'un groupe de personnes pro- se définissant comme l'Armée Électronique Syrienne. En effet : des visiteurs ont pu apercevoir, sur la page d'accueil du site hacké, le logo de cette armée électronique. Ils ont également pu y lire le texte suivant : « Hacked by Electronic Syrian Army » (''Hacké par l'Armée Électronique Syrienne''). D'autres visiteurs recevaient un message indiquant qu'une erreur interne liée aux serveurs s'est produite.

Le ''New York Times'' a déclaré sur son compte  que l'accès a son site a été restreint et que le problème était en train d'être résolu. Les responsables de la panne se sont vantés, également sur Twitter, d'avoir réussi à pirater nytimes.com.