Washington Post Hacked, a Day After New York Times

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."

Re:NYT not hacked.

[barlevg]

Yeah, sorry about that. I was basing the story off the speculation that was circulating yesterday at the time of the outage (and it wasn't just Fox Business News). It was only after I hit "submit" that I found the NYTimes blog post about it being not an attack.

Re:maintenance updates during the day ?

[Charliemopps]

Who says it was scheduled work? Sometimes things happen... certs expire, equipment fails... so you have to do work in the middle of the day. I had to log in remotely via a laptop and 4G hotspot once while I was riding in a canoe on the 4th of July to bring some stuff back up. Bad luck doesn't turn off during business hours and holidays.

Re:NYT not hacked.

[Longstaff]

Fox Business were the first to "break" the story with a "source close to the matter". Everybody went off their lead. Every single technical statement in the article is incorrect and/or laughable. http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2013/08/14/new-york-times-site-experiences-major-outage/ [foxbusiness.com]