Twitter, the popular micro-blogging service, was hacked early Friday morning by a group calling itself the “Iranian Cyber Army.”
Users hoping to find their latest tweets were instead greeted by a black screen with a green flag.
Above the flag, in Arabic, read: “Hezbollah is victorious.”
On the flag, in red Arabic writing: “Yassin” (an Arabic name written in bold) then in smaller Arabic print “the feast of peace.”
Below the flag was more written in Farsi.
In English, the hackers wrote: “This site has ..read more
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Updated at 11:15 p.m. PST to include comment from witness and reflect Twitter.com accessible again.Updated at 11:50 p.m. PST with status update from Twitter.
Twitter.com was down Thursday evening, and it appears that the microblogging site may have been hacked or the victim of a DNS hijacking.
The site, which was inaccessible for about an hour starting around 10 p.m. PST, was defaced with the following image before it was taken offline:
Twitter’s home page before it went offline Thursday evening.
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