On December 17, 2009 the popular micro-blogging platform Twitter was hacked by a group claiming to be the "Iranian Cyber Army". The site was officially pulled offline shortly after the security breach took place.http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/Twitter_Hacked_Iranian_Cyber_Army_takes_on_-nid-63914.html
(Developing Story - more to come soon)
Hackers Message
--QUOTE-- The message reads:
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.http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/17/twitter-reportedly-hacked-by-iranian-cyber-army/
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Hacked Twitter Screenshot
A screenshot of the Twitter homepage after the hacker's broke into the platform