New York Times says Moscow bureau targeted for cyberattack.

After CNN spent the afternoon reporting that the New York Times’ computer systems had been breached by hackers allegedly working for Russian intelligence—to which the Times said it was unaware—the Times followed up Tuesday evening reporting that its Moscow bureau had been the target of a cyberattack earlier this month, but there was no indication that it had been successful.

The Times confirmed CNN’s report that the FBI is investigating an attempted hackof the paper but appears to walk back some of the overheated CNN claims that other news organizations’ computer systems had been breached and that the Times had hired outside investigators to look into the hack. “Evidence that hackers had targeted The Times came to light two months after private investigators concluded that Russian hackers, apparently connected to two of the country’s intelligence agencies, had broken into the networks of the Democratic National Committee,” according to the Times.

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