(UPDATE) NY Times Employee: Times Is Not Under "Cyber Attack"
New York Times employee Daniel Slotnik is now chiming in on Twitter to say that the Times' website failure is due to a simple system malfunction, which contradicts a Fox Business report that the site is suffering a "cyber attack."
Breaking: Website of @NYTimes is under #cyber attack, source tells @FoxBusiness - $NYT #DDoS
— Matt Egan (@MattMEgan5) August 14, 2013
NYT Web site update: we're hearing that a malfunctioning system patch somehow brought down the site and email.
— Daniel E. Slotnik (@DSlotnik) August 14, 2013