'New York Times' Website Goes Down After 'Malicious External Attack'

'New York Times' Website Goes Down After 'Malicious External Attack'

The New York Times' website went down for many users Tuesday afternoon for the second time in less than a month

Users started complaining about the Times website outage around 3 p.m. ET. The Times confirmed this in a tweet a little more than an hour later:

The New York Times Web site is experiencing technical difficulties. We are working on fully restoring the site.

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 27, 2013

A representative for the Times noted in a tweet that the outage appeared to be due to a "malicious external attack."

re: http://t.co/BQE1fJ3uLx - initial assessment - issue is most likely result of malicious external attack. working to fix

— Eileen Murphy (@NYTeileen) August 27, 2013 Read more...

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