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New York Times website, Twitter hacked - Syrian Electronic Army claims responsibility

Sooraj Shah

28 August 2013 • 2 min read

Web host Melbourne IT suffers DNS attack, which it blames on reseller

The New York Times website was unavailable to its readers yesterday afternoon in the US, after a cyber attack on the organisation's web host, Melbourne IT. Twitter, which uses Melbourne IT as a ...

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