China's top search engine Baidu hacked

Baidu (www.baidu.com), China's biggest search engine, was hacked on Tuesday morning, and is currently inaccessible.

Chinese netizens pointed out that the hackers, who call themselves "Iranian Cyber Army", changed Baidu's DNS records, redirecting traffic to another site.

Baidu has not given any official response yet.

The defaced site also included a message that said, "This site has  been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army."

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