Twitter, the popular micro-blogging site had been hijacked by the group claiming to be ‘Iranian Cyber Army’. Apparently the twitter users were redirected to the attacker’s website which displayed this victory image…

Also the attackers scribbled following note explaining the reason for the attack….

Iranian Cyber Army
THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY

iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM

U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don’t, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To….

NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN? USA?
WE PUSH THEM IN EMBARGO LIST 😉
Take Care.

Later officials at Twitter said that there was unplanned downtime during which twitter DNS records got compromised leading to this security breach.

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