Adam Jeffery | CNBC
The New York Times building in New York City.
The New York Times said its website has been taken down, in what was likely an external malicious attack Tuesday.
(Read more: New York Times suffers outage; Twitter experiencing hiccups, too )
Eileen Murphy, VP of corporate communications, initially reported the outage via Twitter.
While the Times was down, Twitter also experienced some hiccups on its website. A Twitter account for the group of hackers called the Syrian Electronic Army claimed that it had attacked the social media website and changed the ownership listing of Twitter's domain name registration.The same account later posted to Twitter that it had also taken over the registrations for the Times website and for the Huffington Post UK domain.
Twitter told CNBC that it was investigating the issue.
Twitter's website is currently functioning, however, some Twitter users are reporting that they can no longer see images on the site.
Read more : http://www.cnbc.com/id/100988768
(Read more: New York Times suffers outage; Twitter experiencing hiccups, too )
Eileen Murphy, VP of corporate communications, initially reported the outage via Twitter.
While the Times was down, Twitter also experienced some hiccups on its website. A Twitter account for the group of hackers called the Syrian Electronic Army claimed that it had attacked the social media website and changed the ownership listing of Twitter's domain name registration.The same account later posted to Twitter that it had also taken over the registrations for the Times website and for the Huffington Post UK domain.
Twitter told CNBC that it was investigating the issue.
Twitter's website is currently functioning, however, some Twitter users are reporting that they can no longer see images on the site.
Read more : http://www.cnbc.com/id/100988768
