Though the website has not confirmed who is behind the hack, in its blog posted at about 2:30 a.m., Twitter stated, “Twitter's DNS records were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed. We will update with more information soon.”
Iranian Cyber Army behind the hack?
The users who logged in were redirected to a page with black screen that had an image of a green flag, and the page read in English and Arabic, “This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army. The USA thinks they control and manage internet access, but they don't. We control and manage the internet with our power, so do not try to the incite Iranian people."
But there is still no evidence that the hackers were actually Iranians. It is likely that the hack was carried out as a prank by someone rather than by cyber criminals.
However, social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook were used by the opposition in Iran earlier this summer to bring to light the country’s disputed presidential elections that were marred by blood bath.
At this time, when the media had a difficult time covering the elections, the opposition took to Twitter to provide minute by minute update along with videos.
Even the Web site of the opposition, mowjcamp.org, was disrupted Friday. The opposition had challenged Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during elections in June.
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