NYT, Twitter, Huffington Post hacked by pro-Syria group
The websites of the New York Times, the Huffington Post and Twitter were hacked by a group known as the Syrian Electronic Army which posted messages supporting the embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
"Our website was unavailable to users in the United States for a period of time yesterday. The outage was the result of an external attack on our domain name registrar, and we are at work on fully restoring service," The NYT said in a message posted on its website.
The NYT chief information officer Marc Frons sent the same update internally to employees at 4:20 PM (local time) and advised them not to send out sensitive emails "until this situation is resolved," according to a statement from the NYT. The attack on America's major media organisations comes as the US weighs a limited military strike on Syria for allegedly using chemical weapons against its own people.
