It has emerged that the New York Times almost cancelled home delivery of its newspaper to everyone across the nation

The email read, "Dear home delivery subscriber, our records indicate that you recently requested to cancel your home delivery subscription. Please keep in mind when your delivery service ends, you will no longer have unlimited access to NYTimes.com and our NYTimes apps. We do hope you'll reconsider."
First the paper tweeted that users should simply ignore the email as the email came from someone else and also suggested that the company had been hacked.
It said, "If you received an email today about cancelling your NYT subscription, ignore it. It's not from us."
Then media watchdog Jim Romenesko uncovered an internal Times email that offered a different explanation.
It stated, "Dear colleague, please be aware that a spam message was sent broadly today with the subject line 'Important information regarding your subscription.' This e-mail was not sent from The New York Times. If you received it, please delete it. We will be alerting subscribers immediately,"
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But after an hour of confusion, misinformation and mistakes the Times' corporate communication department confirmed that that the email did come from them and it was, in fact, simply a mistake.
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"We regret this error and we regret our earlier communication", it added.
Source-ANI