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L’EXPRESS, LE PARISIEN, VANITY FAIR AND 20MINUTES.FR AMONG NEWS WEBSITES TO GO DARK SEVERAL major French news websites are slowly coming back online, having “gone dark” earlier today. A


number of sites hosted by the company Oxalide had went offline, including L’Express, Le Parisien, 20minutes.fr, the sites of Radio France, and Vanity Fair, Mediapart and Slate. Having


confirmed an “incident with its infrastructure”, Oxalide later tweeted: > La source des dysfonctionnements est identifiée. Une partie des > services sont de nouveaux opérationnels. 


L’incident est toujours > en cours.— oxalide (@oxalide) January 16, 2015 It also said that services were being restored. Shortly after 12.20pm, it sent this message: > Le service est 


revenu à + de 90% mais subit encore quelques > perturbations.— oxalide (@oxalide) January 16, 2015 The incident comes days after hackers targeted 20,000 French websites following last


week’s terror attacks in which 17 people were killed - but Le Monde, which remained online all morning, has said that no one has so far claimed responsibility for this morning’s outage, and


suggested that a technical fault may be to blame. Photo: Davide Restivo