Baidu Hacked By Iranian Cyber Army

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: This is the […]

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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 Hacked Image

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


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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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