Twitter down, reportedly hacked by "Iranian Cyber Army"

Filed under: News, Web services, Microblogging

Twitter is currently suffering from an outage that is reportedly the work of the "Iranian Cyber Army." The hackers (whoever they are) defaced the site with a message reading:

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.

No word from Twitter yet, but the entire Twitter.com domain seems to have been taken offline. status.twitter.com and blog.twitter.com are down, too. There have been reports that Twitter.com was resolving to a parking page from a hosting service, but we haven't seen any screenshots of that.

Meanwhile, TechCrunch has screenshots of the message from the Iranian Cyber Army.

UPDATE: Twitter.com is now back up. So is status.twitter.com, which has an hour-old post saying "We are working to recovery from an unplanned downtime and will update more as we learn the cause of this outage."

Twitter down, reportedly hacked by "Iranian Cyber Army" originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments