Those trying to get on to the Twitter website a few hours ago found themselves frustrated by a group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army , who claimed to have hacked the site. The problem was consequently solved by Twitter engineers and service restored, but not until after the group had made it's statement against this enemy-of-the-regime and the US in general.
Users on the micro-blogging service were presented with a new home page, apparently protesting the United States. It appears to be a DNS attack, redirecting users to the new page as of 6am GMT today.
In the poorly translated English -full text- there is an odd reference to an embargo list, and that the hackers were against the Iranian people being stimulated. The hackers gave the address of iranian.cyber.army@gmail.com.
This Twitter hack marks an already difficult week for them ... as the new Twitter application Twitterfeed had a data migration, leaving many users with a reduced service.
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