The New York Times website was still experiencing some issues late Wednesday and early Thursday following a widespread outage. Evidence continued to mount that it was the result of an attack by the Syrian Electronic Army. The group, loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, has been behind multiple attacks on media websites in recent months and, on Twitter, took credit for a sophisticated hack that had hobbled the Times' news site for roughly 20 hours. "The @nytimes attack was going to deliver an anti-war message but our server couldn't last for 3 minutes," the group posted on its Twitter feed at about 9:40 Wednesday morning.
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New York Times site still experiencing problems following Tuesday outage
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Syrian Electronic Army takes credit for New York Times attack
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The group is loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad
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Twitter also experienced problems on Tuesday due to a similar attack
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