The site is down for the second time this month, and this time the paper says its likely from a "malicious external attack." August 27, 2013 2:19 PM PDT 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." We've contacted the Times for more information and we'll update when we hear back. Donna Tam Donna Tam is a staff writer for CNET News and a native of San Francisco. She enjoys feasting, merrymaking, checking her Gmail, and reading on her Kindle. Before landing at CNET, she wrote for daily newspapers, including the Oakland Tribune, The Spokesman-Review, and the Eureka Times-Standard.
The site is down for the second time this month, and this time the paper says its likely from a "malicious external attack."
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."
We've contacted the Times for more information and we'll update when we hear back.
Donna Tam is a staff writer for CNET News and a native of San Francisco. She enjoys feasting, merrymaking, checking her Gmail, and reading on her Kindle. Before landing at CNET, she wrote for daily newspapers, including the Oakland Tribune, The Spokesman-Review, and the Eureka Times-Standard.
