New York Times Hacked?

First time accepted submitter porsche911 writes "It looks like the NYTimes have been hacked and a large number of subscribers spammed with messages about cancellation of their service. The phone system is overwhelmed as well. The Times is currently saying the email is a fake, but that raises other worries. They were one of the only 3rd parties that had the email in question so it appears either someone really screwed up or they've suffered a data breach." Update: 12/28 21:59 GMT by S : Looks like it was just a mistake by an employee.

Comments

Seems the New York Times keeps a spam list

[KnightMB]

I've never subscribed to the New York times, yet my personal e-mail address got the same spam? Does this mean more than just a subscriber list was used or do they have a more extensive list that they have bought/captured over the years that's the equivalent of a giant spam list?

Re:Well, they tried hacking the The New Yorker fir

[Mashiki]

Too true, and too funny. You forgot to mention that this is also a method to retain customers after their dismal and continual failure to retain a readership base.

Not surprising

[cultiv8]

Someone wrote 4 lines of CSS & JS and was able to haxxor NYTimes paywall. A guru hacker is not necessary.