Baidu Hacked By Iranian Cyber Army

January 12, 2010 by Matthew.Elshaw  
Filed under News/Reviews/Articles



Reuters reports that China’s popular search engine, Baidu, was hacked for about four hours by the Iranian Cyber Army. Baidu sent Reuters a statement on the hack:

This morning, Baidu’s domain name registration in the United States was tampered with, leading to inaccessibility.

Here is a picture of the hack from @mranti:


baidu Baidu Hacked By Iranian Cyber Army

Baidu Hacked By Iranian Cyber Army



This is the same group of hackers that took over Twitter’s web site for a short time period several months ago.


Source: Search Engine Land

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