Twitter was hacked by the “Iranian Cyber Army”

by certifiedbug on December 18, 2009

in Internet Security

Screenshots and commentary:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/17/twitter-reportedly-hacked-by-iranian-cyber-army/

Quickly followed by;

We are working to recovery from an unplanned downtime and will update more as we learn the cause of this outage.

Update (11:28p): Twitter’s DNS records were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed. We are looking into the underlying cause and will update with more information soon.

http://status.twitter.com/post/288586541/working-on-site-outage

Edits
CyberCrime & Doing Time:
Who is the “Iranian Cyber Army”? Twitter DNS Redirect
Iranian Cyber Army returns – target: Baidu.com

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