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August 16, 2013

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Washington Post Website 
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A group sympathetic to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad disrupted
traffic on the Washington Post website Thursday. The breach saw some
readers redirected to the website of the Syrian Electronic Army, the
same group that claimed credit for hacking the Twitter account of the
Associated Press earlier this year. The issue stemmed from the
infiltration of an ad network called Outbrain which the Post uses to
generate story recommendations for readers. CNN and Time also use
Outbrain and reported more minor effects from the hack. On Wednesday,
the New York Times website went down for about two hours, but company
officials cited technical issues from routine maintenance.

 

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