As of this moment, the website of the New York Times is inaccessible to many people. It’s apparently the victim of an attack by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), the group of hackers that supports Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and who started out by hacking their ideological foes before it occurred to them they’d get more press by going after more visible targets.
But here’s the thing: Unlike previous attacks by the SEA, for example against the Twitter accounts of The Guardian,
it seems more likely that this time, the SEA didn’t manage to filch
passwords from anyone within the Times itself. As the Times itself has
just reported, there has been an “attack on the company’s domain name
registrar, Melbourne IT.” The same registrar apparently also hosts the
domain names of other sites the SEA claims to have hacked, including
Twitter and the Huffington Post, which also .....full news @QUARTZ
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