The New York Times the page was probably crashed, company says

(Reuters)-website of The New York Times has experienced another outage on Tuesday afternoon, the probable cause of the hackers, the company said.

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

It is the second time the times has a problem with his website for two weeks. August 14, instead fell for a few hours, the failure is likely related to the scheduled maintenance updates that occurred within a few seconds a Web site goes down.

Several media organizations have been attacked by hackers in recent months. Also in August, the Syrian army support electronic hackers at the targeted sites belonging to the CNN, time and the Washington Post about the crossing of the third party services used by these sites.

Dow Jones Chief Executive Lex Fenwick tweeted on Tuesday that the Wall Street Journal's Web site is a "free for all, for a few hours," fuck the journal crosstown rival.

(Reporting by Jennifer Saba in New York; Editing by Steve Orlofsky)