'New York Times' Website Goes Down After 'Malicious External Attack'

The New York Times' website went down for many users Tuesday afternoon for the second time in less than a month

Users started complaining about the Times website outage around 3 p.m. ET. The Times confirmed this in a tweet a little more than an hour later:

The New York Times Web site is experiencing technical difficulties. We are working on fully restoring the site.

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 27, 2013

A representative for the Times noted in a tweet that the outage appeared to be due to a "malicious external attack."

re: https://t.co/BQE1fJ3uLx - initial assessment - issue is most likely result of malicious external attack. working to fix

— Eileen Murphy (@NYTeileen) August 27, 2013 Read more...