NYMag.com, according to Quartz, was hit with a Distributed-Denial-of-Services (DDoS) attack that lasted for 12 hours.

The attack was executed by a man with a vendetta against anything New York. The attacker is called ThreatKing, and the attack was launched Sunday night after the magazine released its cover story on the Bill Cosby rape allegations. The attacker did not attack based on the cover story. He was reacting to his hatred of anything New York after having a prank pulled on him when he was a visitor to the city two months ago.

ThreatKing claimed responsibility on Twitter under the now-suspended handle “@Vikingdom2016."

He hired Vikingdom, which is a hacking collective that launched a series of attacks on random government websites earlier this year. The collective said that it plans on carrying out more attacks on anything "New York" and wants to destroy the U.S.

Source: SCMagazine