Times Site Is Disrupted in Attack by Hackers - New York Times

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http://news.nytco.com/2013/08/28/business/media/hacking-attack-is-suspected-on-times-web-site.html?smid=tw-nytimes

http://www.zdnet.com/hackers-had-melbourne-it-reseller-credentials-to-attack-nyt-twitter-7000019931/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Delicious/vzriskteam/agenda+%20Delicious/vzriskteam/agenda+%20test%20%20#7398501524621587306

Overnight, The New York Times and Twitter revealed that their DNS entries had been maliciously modified, with the Syrian Electronic Army taking credit for the attack. Melbourne IT has now confirmed that one of its customers was targeted by the hacking group, and has taken action to undo the damage created.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/sea/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Delicious/vzriskteam/agenda+%20Delicious/vzriskteam/agenda+%20test%20%20#7594213124835144372

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Additional sources to pull data from. May include timeline information. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/08/27/new-york-times-website-down-again/

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-new-york-times-website-out-20130827,0,4849623.story

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/new-york-times-web-site-inaccessible-for-some-users/2013/08/27/628f5b46-0f50-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_story.html?hpid=z4

https://twitter.com/Official_SEA16/status/372474022358810624

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Even more detailed information http://blog.cloudflare.com/details-behind-todays-internet-hacks

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List of sites affected:

http://labs.alienvault.com/labs/index.php/2013/several-domains-including-new-york-times-and-twitter-ones-attacked-by-syrian-electronic-army/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Delicious/vzriskteam/agenda+%20Delicious/vzriskteam/agenda+%20test%20%20#34279817172183624196

From duplicate closed issue: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57600361-93/twitter-no-data-breach-from-hack/