NYT Says Moscow Bureau Targeted By Hackers But Wasn’t Compromised

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The New York Times said on Tuesday that its Moscow Bureau was targeted by hackers but that the cyber attacks did not compromise the paper’s system.

“We are constantly monitoring our systems with the latest available intelligence and tools,” New York Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said in a statement. “We have seen no evidence that any of our internal systems, including our systems in the Moscow bureau, have been breached or compromised.”

CNN reported earlier on Tuesday that the FBI is investigating cyber attacks on New York Times journalists and reporters at other outlets, citing unnamed U.S. officials. The FBI suspects Russian hackers were behind the breach, according to CNN. The network also reported that the Times hired an outside security firm to assess the cyber attack.

But the New York Times’ reporting on the cyber attack differed from the CNN account. The Times said that the attack did not result in a breach and said that the paper has not hired an outside firm. The New York Times also reported that the FBI is investigating the attempted hack of the paper but that the Bureau is not looking into any attacks at other news outlets.

Reports of the attempted hack follows the news that the Democratic National Committee and another Democratic campaign groups were the victims of cyber attacks. The FBI is investigating those hacks and officials suspect Russian hackers were behind the breaches.

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  1. People are saying that Donald Trump doesn’t like the NY Times
    People are saying that Donald Trump is associated with the Russians
    I don’t know if there’s a connection , it’s just that people are saying

  2. On the one hand, Russia is a state sponsor of cyber-terrorism. That is indisputable.

    On the other hand, everything lately is being blamed on “Russian Hackers”, who honestly if they were really trying to subvert our democracy wouldn’t be quite this brazen.

    I suspect we’re being propagandized just a little, though I have zero doubt in my mind that Russia is actively hacking everything they can get their grubby little paws on.

    tl;dr – Getting harder to separate the wheat from the chaff.

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