Iranian Cyber Army Twitter hacked the Internet

 Twitter's Alex Payne had this photo as "current status" of Twitter 9 hours ago

While I was at a Christmas dinner party last night around 10 PM, a group called the Iranian Cyber Army, Twitter hacked in such a way that the Twitter home page was replaced with this:

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.

The above information was from Michael Arrington at TechCrunch,which reported a series of updates on the issue, and this blog post ftom Biz Stone, the founder of Twitter: 

Thursday, December 17, 2009
DNS Disruption
As we tweeted a bit ago, Twitter's DNS records were temporarily compromised tonight but have now been fixed. As some noticed, Twitter.com was redirected for a while but API and platform applications were working. We will update with more information and details once we've investigated more fully.


posted by @Biz at 11:43 PM

 But how did they do this?  TechCrunch' Arrington says they reported on Twitter's security problems before: a web server misconfiguration such that network information was shown, and the incident where a number of Twitter internal documents were sent to TechCrunch.   That's not to point to them in the least, but to show that in different ways, Twitter's security system and information is being shared with more than the usual range of people.  In other words, they still have a leak problem. 

Twitter's up and working; in fact that was the case for me at 1 AM.

The question is can they do it again, and who is the Iranian Cyber Army, really? 

Stay tuned.