Iranian Cyber Army Hacks Twitter

Twitter compromised, DNS hijacking to blame - HNS

 

According to Help Net Security, the Twitter web site appeared to be defaced by someone called "Iranian Cyber Army". The situation was fixed and as it turned out, hack was a result of DNS hijacking. 





Initial message from the official Twitter account:

Twitter's DNS records were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed. We will update with more information soon.

Twitter's blog post that followed:

As we tweeted a bit ago, Twitter's DNS records were temporarily compromised tonight but have now been fixed. As some noticed, Twitter.com was redirected for a while but API and platform applications were working. We will update with more information and details once we've investigated more fully.

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