The New York Times experienced another outage

Dear New York Times Reader, As you may be aware, on Tuesday, access to our Web site was impacted by a malicious attack at our domain name registrar. This resulted in many users being redirected to a bad domain address instead of NYTimes.com. We resolved the issue by early Tuesday evening but there have been some lingering problems due to some Internet Service Providers not yet updating our Domain Name System records. We fully expect that all access will be restored by the end of the day today and we deeply regret any inconvenience this may have caused. Sincerely, The New York Times

The website of The New York Times experienced another outage on Tuesday afternoon, likely caused by hackers, the company said. 

New York Times Co spokeswoman Eileen Murphy tweeted on Tuesday that the "issue is most likely the result of a malicious external attack," based on an initial assessment.

This is the second time the Times has experienced problems with its website in two weeks. On August 14, the site was down for several hours, an outage likely related to a scheduled maintenance update that occurred within seconds of the website's going down.

Several media organization have been attacked by hackers in recent months. Also in August, hackers promoting the Syrian Electronic Army simultaneously targeted websites belonging to CNN, Time and the Washington Post by breaching a third party service used by those sites. [Reuters]