Baidu Hacked by Iranian Cyber Army?

by Rocky Fu on January 12, 2010

in News

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Around 7:20 this morning, many posts at webmaster forums reported that Baidu.com and its subdomains could not be accessed. It’s already working when this post is being published.

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Ming Liangshu, a webmaser from Beijing, reported yahoo DNS showed up when he pinged baidu.com (8:25am):
Ming Liangshu, a webmaser from Beijing, reported yahoo DNS showed

C:Usersinso>ping www.baidu.com
Pinging sbs-p11p.asbs.yahoodns.net [98.136.50.138] with 32 bytes of data:

Iranian Cyber Army page was reported seen around 8:36am:

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Some users even saw Yahoo error page when trying to access Baidu.com around 8:43am.

Baidu has not responded to this incident yet.

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