Media companies including the New York Times, Twitter and the Huffington Post has been unavailable since Tuesday after the external malicious attack by a group of hackers supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad. The Syrian Electronic Army has previously claimed responsibility for attacking the websites or Twitter accounts of the Washington Post, Financial Times, CBS News, National Public Radio, The Associated Press, Al-Jazeera English and the BBC. The Huffington Post and Twitter also confirmed their websites were affected by the DNS attacks. For Twitter, the Tuesday attack on its website used for images resulted in users having trouble viewing photos.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2013/08/Syrian-Electronic-Army-New-York-Times-hacked.html