The New York Times website went down on Tuesday for the second time this month after it was reported that The Syrian Electronic Army most likely hacked into the company's system. As of Wednesday morning, the website was still down in some areas.

The S.E.A. this week claimed it hacked into the New York Times, Huffington Post UK, and Twitter. The group posted a tweet that read, "Hi @Twitter, look at your domain, its owned by #SEA :)"

There has been some doubt as to whether the S.E.A. hacked into anything besides the New York Times; Huffington Post and Twitter websites remained functional while the New York Times website went down.

The New York Times organized a substitute website for the time being and viewers were able to access the content as it was posted. A link on the company's Twitter page directed readers to the alternate site.

New York Times Chief Information Officer Marc Frons released a statement on Tuesday to notify employees that the site's outage was "the result of a malicious external attack." He warned employees about communication risks, saying that they should be "careful" about sending e-mails through their company accounts.

The S.E.A. started attacking various online groups in 2011 and has continued since. The S.E.A. claims that it was responsible for hacking into the Associated Press back in April, when they wrote a fake message saying that U.S. President Barack Obama was injured.

According to the New York Times, the group's goal in this week's attack "was to offer a pro-government counternarrative to media coverage of Syria."

The New York Times site appeared to be fully restored by Wednesday afternoon, and the story of the hacking incident was buried towards the bottom of the page. The website did, however, have a notice posted for the readers on Wednesday that read, "Our Web site has been unavailable to some readers since Tuesday. The disruption was the result of an external attack on our domain name registrar, and we are at work on fully restoring service. We regret the inconvenience."