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    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 […]

    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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