Twitter, Iranian Reformer Sites Hacked by ‘Iranian Cyber Army’

[truth seeker]

By WSJ Staff

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Twitter suffered a hack attack overnight, with its Web pages redirecting to a site for the “Iranian Cyber Army.” Twitter later Friday posted an update that said its domain name records “were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed” and promised another update “once we’ve investigated more fully.”

Iranian reformist Web site Mowjcamp also appeared to be hacked by the same group.

TechCrunch has a number of screenshots and videos of the hacks, which also affected Google’s listing for the sites.

It wasn’t immediately clear who was responsible for the attacks.

As The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month, Iran has been conducting a campaign of harassing and intimidating members of its diaspora world-wide — not just prominent dissidents — who criticize the regime, according to former Iranian lawmakers and former members of Iran’s elite security force, the Revolutionary Guard, with knowledge of the program. Part of the effort involves tracking the Facebook, Twitter and YouTube activity of Iranians around the world, and identifying them at opposition protests abroad, these people say.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/12/18/twitter-iranian-reformer-sites-hacked-by-iranian-cyber-army/

 

[Skyfarmr]

Second that motion. However, I believe Huffington Post broke the story,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/18/twitter-hacked-by-iranian_n_396741.html
Apparently, some of those posting comments, didn't buy the "false flag" and pointed the finger at Israel.
One post-er commented on the message left by whomever claiming to be the "Iranian Cyber Army": "Is that an is ra eli accent in that Farsi??".... which sums up a lot.

Found this previous SOTT article when searching for the Twitter Hack : http://www.sott.net/articles/show/198149-Facebook-Twitter-Israel-s-new-battle-ground
Some interesting parts of the Dec 1 article from PressTV:
"The spokesman[Israeli] explained the new department would target the Internet's social networking sites to create a direct link with international audiences rather than addressing them through the regular media.

The plan was presented at the Monday conference alongside another initiative by the Israeli Information and Diaspora Ministry to train people to represent Israel independently on the Internet and other domains.

According to Benayahu, from each group recruited at the Army Spokesman's Office, between 8 to 10 young people who are experts in Web 2.0 - YouTube, Facebook and Twitter - would be identified before training and assigned to the new unit."