Russian opposition newspaper comes under hacker attack

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“Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta has said it was the target of a hacker attack after its web site crashed on Tuesday.

‘Today, beginning from about 9-9:30 a.m. [6-6:30 GMT], the web site of Novaya Gazeta stopped responding to user requests. Our technical service has so far failed to find the reason for the web site’s crash. There is a strong feeling that the Novaya Gazeta web site came under a DDOS attack,’ the paper said in its blog.

Novaya Gazeta, which is well-known in the country for its critical and investigative coverage of political and social life in Russia, has lost several journalists in the past few years.”

(Russian opposition newspaper comes under hacker attack | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire)

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