Baidu Targeted by ‘Iranian Cyber Army’ Hack Attack
January 12th, 2010
China's largest search engine, Baidu.com, said that it was temporarily shut down after a cyberattack Tuesday. Hackers briefly blocked access to China's top search engine by steering traffic to another Web site where a group reportedly calling itself the "Iranian Cyber Army" claimed responsibility. "Services on Baidu's main Web site were interrupted today due to external manipulation of its DNS (domain name server) in the U.S.," said Baidu spokesperson Victor Tseng.
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