‘Iranian Cyber Army’ hacks Twitter
Above The Iranian Cyber Army’s page, which has replaced the Twitter one at this time.
For those trying to get on to the Twitter website presently, one need not bother: a group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army claims to have hacked the site.
Users on the micro-blogging service were presented with a new home page, apparently protesting the United States. It appears to be a DNS attack, redirecting users to the new page.
The new home page emerged at 6 a.m. GMT today.
In the poorly translated English (full text noted here), there is an odd reference to an embargo list, and that the hackers were against the Iranian people being stimulated. The hackers gave the address of iranian.cyber.army@gmail.com.
This publication will hold back on Tweeting till the hacking problem is resolved.
It marks an already difficult week on Twitter. Twitter application Twitterfeed had a data migration, leaving many users with a reduced service.
Update: Within an hour, Twitter restored its service.
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Twitter hacked? http://lucire.com/insider/20091218/iranian-cyber-army-hacks-twitter/ My colleagues in Mumbai are getting that still!
Trackback by Prem Kumar Aparanji — December 18, 2009 @ 1.12
@rwang0 @j4ngis @GreenbizStartup twitter was hacked: http://lucire.com/insider/20091218/iranian-cyber-army-hacks-twitter/
Trackback by Prem Kumar Aparanji — December 18, 2009 @ 1.17
RT @prem_k: @rwang0 @j4ngis @GreenbizStartup twitter was hacked: http://lucire.com/insider/20091218/iranian-cyber-army-hacks-twitter/
Trackback by R Ray Wang — December 18, 2009 @ 1.23
被伊朗人給 crack 了？ RT @ochakaiwch 現在twitter down 的原因… http://j.mp/5LTxoC
Trackback by 良牙 — December 18, 2009 @ 1.29
Just prior to this, twitter.com led to a “cybersquatter” placeholder page for a few minutes.
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OMG
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This post was mentioned on Friendfeed by Kevin Toomer: Hmmm. Twitter seems to have gone down hard. Some claims that it has been hacked by the Iranians – http://lucire.com/insider…...
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Mad Mac: interesting, I missed that. I wonder what that meant—I guess the hackers must have directed things to their own site. I’m glad to see it’s back right now.
Comment by Jack Yan — December 18, 2009 @ 7.24