Report: Newsweek Attacked by Hackers After Negative Donald Trump Story

Newsweek reporter Kurt Eichenwald tweeted Friday that a negative story about Donald Trump was temporarily down Thursday night after the paper’s website was attacked by hackers.

Eichenwald reported Thursday that a company controlled by Trump took steps to invest in Cuba in the 1990’s and took business trips to Havana, a violation of the U.S. embargo. But late Thursday, Newsweek‘s website went down entirely.

At first, Eichenwald announced that that website went down because of high traffic. But half an hour later, he said the site was attacked by “hackers.”

Last night, @Newsweek crashed from flood of ppl trying 2 read story about Trump breaking Cuban embargo. It’s back. https://t.co/BLWD7ga1BZ

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) September 30, 2016

News: The reason ppl couldnt read #TrumpInCuba piece late yesterday is that hackers launched a major attack on Newsweek after it was posted.

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) September 30, 2016

As 4 the hackers who took down Newsweek after we posted “Trump in Cuba” piece: Thanks for giving it more publicity. https://t.co/BLWD7ga1BZ

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) September 30, 2016

Given Eichenwald’s earlier description of how the site went down, it may be the case that the “hackers” employed a denial of service (DoS) attack, where they flood a server with more traffic and requests than it can handle.

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