On its Facebook page, the Times said it was working to fix the problem, which appears to have started at 15:00 local time on Tuesday.

 

A technical problem knocked NYTimes.com offline on 14 August.

 

Analysts² said evidence showed a group supporting Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was behind Tuesday's attack.

 

The website was partially³ back online three hours later, although some users still reported difficulties. During the suspension the New York Times published new articles on its Facebook page as well as a mirror site.

 

Mark Frons, the company's chief information officer, warned New York Times employees the attack was perpetrated by the Syrian Electronic Army, which backs Mr Assad, "or someone trying very hard to be them". 

 

He cautioned staff to "be careful when sending e-mail communications until this situation is resolved".

 

Security experts said there was enough evidence to link the hacking⁴ group to the problems.

 

"The NYTimes.com domain⁵ is pointing at SyrianElectronicArmy.com which maps to an IP address in Russia, so it's clearly a malicious attack," Ken⁶ Westin, a security researcher for Tripwire, an online security company, told the BBC.

 

In a separate posting on Tuesday, the group also claimed responsibility for hacking Twitter's administrative⁷ contact information.

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