Chinese search engine Baidu Got Hacked
Today Guardian.co.uk reported that the famous Chinese Search engine Baidu Got hacked. Chinese internet users were unable to use the Baidu search engine after it was targeted by hackers called the ‘Iranian Cyber Army’.
Guardian Said,
The search engine is widely regarded as having good relations with the Beijing government and has never been associated with sensitive content. That led other internet users to speculate that foreign hackers were attempting to discredit Iran.
China’s state-run People’s Daily website reported that Baidu’s website began redirecting to a site attributed to the Iranian Cyber Army at around 8am (midnight GMT). The People’s Daily site published a screen grab showing a message reading “This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army”, alongside a picture of the Iranian flag.
Other users said they could not open the Baidu site, but it was back up and running by around 11.30am. In a statement, the company said: “Services on Baidu’s main website www.baidu.com were interrupted today due to external manipulation of its DNS (Domain Name Server) in the US. Baidu has been resolving this issue and the majority of services have been restored.”
Via:guardian.co.uk
