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The New York Times Explains How It Got Hacked: It Sold an Ad to a Hacker

in Media on September 14, 2009 at 3:34 pm PT

How did the New York Times end up serving a fake–and potentially dangerous–ad from its NYTimes.com site over the weekend? It got paid to do it by someone masquerading as a legitimate ad buyer.
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