Twitter briefly blocked by hackers

7:05 AM // 0 comments // ngsk // Category: Micro Blogging , News , Twitter //

Its seems that popular social networking site Twitter also became target by hacker. This time it is the group named as "Iranian Cyber Army" claimed responsibility.

Visitors to the site found that Twitter homepage had been replaced by a page showing a green flag under red text reading "This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army." – Stated by CNN and this was also confirmed by Technology blogs including TechCrunch saying that Twitter went down around 06:00 GMT for about an hour.


But Twitter later Friday posted a message on its blog by Biz Stone, the site’s co-founder, saying that its Domain Name Systems' records "were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed." "We will update with more information and details once we've investigated more fully," he said.

Still there is no confirmation from site authorities how it has been hacked and who carried out this attack.

Screenshots posted on the Flickr photosharing site showed text on the Iranian Cyber Army's replacement page which seemed to criticize reported efforts by the US state department tried to influence Twitter to postpone maintenance work during recent protests against the Tehran government.

Iranian demonstrators protesting against the results of June presidential elections used Twitter extensively, both to organize marches and to release information about their movement which made Iranian election one of the top "trends" on the site this year.

Text on the replacement page states, “It was a reaction to Twitter's interference in the internal affairs of "my country", which it said the US authorities had ordered.

USA thinks they controlling and managing internet by their access [sic], but they don't, we control and manage internet by our power," the text said.

“Now which country in embargo list? Iran? USA? We push them in embargo list. Take care," it read.

TechCrunch reported that the disruption also affected Google searches for Twitter.

Techcrunch posted a screenshots showing that searches for a time returned a result reading, "This website has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army," it said.