Twitter, the most famous micro blogging has been hacked today and the homepage was defaced with the message below.
“Name of God
As an Iranian response to this intervention sly server command in the internal affairs of my country and American authorities)
This site is a warning Hk”
Twitter.com is now completely taken down and even status.twitter.com looks down from here.
The Twitter homepage now looks similar to http://www.mowjcamp.org/
The Google cache still shows the defaced page of twitter which confirms that the site has been compromised.
Check the Google cache here
The message shown in the cache is
بنام خدا
به عنوان یک ایرانی در پاسخ به دخالت های شیطنت آمیز این سرویس دهنده به دستور مقامات آمریکایی در امور داخلی کشورم )
این سایت به عنوان هشدار هک می شود
Translating this text shows
“Name of God
As an Iranian response to this intervention sly server command in the internal affairs of my country and American authorities)
This site is a warning Hk”
Looks like some sort of server-side DNS cache poisoning where the nameservers of twitter is redirected to the defaced page. Lets hope twitter team recovers from this attack ASAP.
UPDATE: Twitter is back!!!
UPDATE2: As assumed, it was a clear case of DNS disruption. Checkout the Twitter blog for knowing more on this issue.