New York Times website has hacked yesterday, making it inaccessible for many users, but the New York Times' website is back up after what looks like a hack attack by the Syrian Electronic Army.
Spokeswoman Eileen Murphy issued a statement about the New York Times website being hacked, "The situation is close to being fully resolved. Our traffic levels are almost back to normal, but there may be instances of some ISPs (Internet service providers) having not yet restored the proper DNS records."

Credit was taken after the New York Times website was hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army. A group that is loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. Before the New York Times website was hacked, the Syrian Electronic Army has been seen to be the masterminds behind multiple attacks on media websites. The Syrian Electronic Army also hacked Twitter and is blamed for outages at Huffington Post.
Twitter also experienced problems on Tuesday. The Syrian Electronic Army took credit for a sophisticated New York Times website hack that knocked the news site offline for about 20 hours.

The New York Times website hack came as governments are considering taking military action after it was learned that Al-Assad used chemical weapons against his own people when he was putting down an insurrection.

The Syrian Electronic Army hacked into Associated Press and Washington Post Twitter feeds. On August 15 the Syrian Electronic Army hacked many major news ogranizations’ websites and redirecting them to a Syrian Electronic Army webpage. The Syrian Electronic Army may also be behind a similar attack on CNN.com.

After the New York Times website was hacked, the Syrian Electronic Army tweeted "The @nytimes attack was going to deliver an anti-war message but our server couldn't last for 3 minutes."

The New York Times Co. Chief Information Officer Marc Frons came short of laying direct blame on the Syrian Electronic Army, but a memo to New York Times staffers said that The Syrian Electronic Army or "someone trying very hard to be them" appeared to be behind the attack.

Evidence is showing that the Syrian Electronic Army hackers got access to the New York Times and other new company websites through an Australian company that specializes in website domain name registration called Melbourne IT. Domain name systems match domain names, NYTimes.com to the numbers on their Internet addresses. Melbourne IT blamed the security breach on a distributor.
Melbourne IT found the New York Times website the hackers used an IP address address that is based in India. Melbourne IT says it has "no connection with the Internet service provider in India."

Bruce Tonkin, chief technology officer of Melbourne IT said "It is just as likely that the hackers are using a compromised computer in India.”

Gunter Ollmann, chief technology officer of Internet security firm IOActive said corporate websites domain name systems remain are particularly vulnerable to hacker attacks. He said "It's a very complex equation. There are soft points. If the website of GE or The New York Times went down, which is going to generate more attention?"

This was the second time in two weeks that the New York Times website went dark. An internal problem knocked the site down on Aug. 14.