Folks tuning to read The Register today were greeted with a hack page courtesy of a Turkish hacker group.
A quick check of their Twitter feed showed that they were in no mood to answer questions not posed in Turkish.
From Twitter:
As of press time the site remained offline for much of the globe.
From Host-Tracker:
No word as to the extent of the breach or how they may have gained access. I would imagine that el Reg will let us know in time.
UPDATE: Turns out that it was a DNS hijack that also affected the Telegraph. (h/t Chris @Walshman23)
A search of Zone-H demonstrates how wide ranging the effects of this DNS attack were. Here is a screen cap for posterity.