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Since early this morning the Chinese Search Engine, Baidu has been unavailable. Typing their web address simply gets a connection error and given the huge amount of traffic this site receives every minute this is undoubtedly causing huge disruption to the company and their consumers.
As of about 7.30am, a hacker group, calling itself Iranian Cyber Army, hijacked Baidu's home page and left a message in Farsi saying that the act was a protest against foreign involvement in Iran's domestic politics.
It appears that they attacked the domain name registrar used by Baidu, which is based in the US.
So when you tried to access the Baidu site you would see the Iran's national flag, words in Farsi and a torn national flag of Israel, a result of Baidu.com being redirected to a website located in the Netherlands.
Let me know if you have any more information and we can share with the community.
Written on Tuesday, 12 January 2010 10:18 by Matt McDougall
