The New York Times said its website went down Tuesday after what appeared to be a “malicious external attack.”<\/p>\n
Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy made the announcement on Twitter, two weeks after the site went offline due to what the daily said was an internal server problem.<\/p>\n
Her full tweet said: “re: nytimes.com – initial assessment – issue is most likely result of malicious external attack. working to fix.”<\/p>\n
The newspaper’s main Twitter account said shortly after 2000 GMT that its website “is experiencing technical difficulties” but was publishing news via Twitter and other links.<\/p>\n
The daily said in January that hackers stole its corporate passwords and accessed the personal computers of 53 employees after the newspaper published a report on the family fortune of China’s Premier Wen Jiabao.<\/p>\n
The Washington Post website was hacked this month in an attack blamed on the Syrian Electronic Army, a group that backs embattled strongman Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n
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