{"id":10888,"date":"2009-12-18T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-18T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T10:46:00","slug":"twitter-blocked-by-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/10888-twitter-blocked-by-hackers.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter blocked by hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users trying to reach Twitter early Friday were redirected to a Web page that CNN reported had a picture of a green flag and a message that said, &#8220;This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There was no evidence the hackers are actually linked to Iran. Web sites like Twitter and Facebook helped bring attention to the Iranian opposition during the country&#8217;s crackdown after its June elections, with users posting minute-by-minute updates and amateur video.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter later Friday posted a message on its blog that said its Domain Name Systems&#8217; records &#8220;were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed.&#8221; The site says it will update with more details &#8220;once we&#8217;ve investigated more fully.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?p=3453073#post3453073\">Twitter blocked by hackers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers briefly blocked access to the popular Internet messaging service Twitter, steering traffic to another Web site where a group reportedly calling itself the &quot;Iranian Cyber Army&quot; claimed responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}