Website of Edition The New York Times was disabled on August 27 of this year. Failure of the portal associated with the attack on the Australian domain name registrar - Melbourne IT. At the time of the attack to all employees edition forbidden to send sensitive information via e-mail.
Director of Information Technology NYT Marc Frons said that the failure of the site is the result of an external cyber attacks by the Syrian Electronic Army, or other intruders posing as this hacker group. Initially, in the publication of failure associated with technical problems.
Attack on Melbourne IT not only caused a problem with the site NYT, but with an account in Twitter edition.
