VIDEO – Twitter hacked, redirected by ‘Iranian Cyber Army’

For about two hours Thursday night beginning at 10 PM EST, Twitter was reportedly hacked and redirected to a website claiming to be the “Iranian Cyber Army” with with following message (via TechCrunch):

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.

It was a temporary DNS redirect, and Twitter had this statemenet when it came back up: “Twitter’s DNS records were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed. We are looking into the underlying cause and will update with more information soon.”

This summer Twitter was a communication outlet for protesters during an Iranian election. Mainstream media had difficulty getting access to what was going on, so protesters used Twitter to share information and pictures with the world.

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