The Los Angeles times learned that a segment of its website housed malicious code for sise weeks. The subdomain OffersandDeals.latimes.com redirected visitors to a malicious website. The website then used encrypt to receive compensation for web traffic. The compromise appears to get occurred sometime before December 23, 2012. An LA Times representative initially responded to the hack by claiming that a glitch in Google's display advertising exchange had caused a malicious script warning rather than actual malicious script.