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Washington Post Hacked, a Day After New York Times

Posted by timothy on from the paper-of-record dept.

barlevg writes "A day after the New York Times was brought down by a cyber attack, the Washington Post reported being hacked, with various news stories being redirected to the website of the Syrian Electronic Army. It's been speculated that this is the work of the same hacking syndicate that compromised both news organizations last year."

2 of 98 comments (clear)

  1. maintenance updates during the day ? by KernelMuncher · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seriously, what competent IT shop pushes out maintenance updates during peak viewing times ? Our company schedules that work for Friday nights, just in case something unexpected happens. At the very least they should have saved the update until the late evening shift.

    The NY Times doesn't sound like they are telling the entire truth.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/15/business/media/new-york-times-web-site-returns-after-hours-offline.html?_r=0

  2. Outbrain Hacked -- Leads to defacement on WP,CNN by ItsPaPPy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The SEA hacked Outbrain, which is a content provider. CNN, WP, NY Times, all use this companies software to recommend stories to readers.

    http://thehackernews.com/2013/08/Outbrain-hacked-Syrian-Electronic-Army.html

    http://techblog.outbrain.com/2013/08/update-outbrain-security-breach/