Hackers took down the biggest Chinese search engine Baidu.com
Today Baidu.com was attacked by hackers. The attack started at about 7 AM the Beijing Time, and lasted several hours. Right now Baidu seems to have controlled the situation, and its search service has been recovered, though some of its Internet services are still unavailable to its users. During the hack, the WHOIS information showed Baidu.com’s DNS on its registrar Register.com was illegally changed several times. A picture with ‘IRANIN CYBER ARMY’ words on it ever appeared under baidu.com at the early stage, showing that possibility that the hackers are from Iran.
Baidu.com is the biggest Chinese language search engine, and takes about 70% Chinese language search market share in 2009. But the company is also notorious for unindexing webpages in its search result that China government is unhappy with.