New York Times, Twitter, Other Sites Reportedly Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

Several prominent media sites and a few media-related Twitter feeds went down Tuesday following an apparent attack by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), the New York Times reported. Among the sites affected were the NYT itself, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, NPR, and Twitter feeds for Reuters, the AP and BBC Weather.

The Syrian Electronic Army, a group of hackers that promotes the Assad regime in Syria, is also taking responsibility for taking control of the media sites. Contemporaneous data from Internet registrars named the Syrian Electronic Army as the sites’ administrator.

Media is going down….

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