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Twitter.com was hacked Thursday evening, and it appears that the micro blogging site may have been hacked or the victim of a DNS hijacking.

This isn’t the first time Twitter has had issues with security. In January, a hacker hijacked CNN anchor Rick Sanchez’s feed and proclaimed the journalist was “high on crack.” Twitter users have also been the target of a password-stealing phishing scam. Disguising itself as a private message that led to a fake Twitter log-in screen, the scam was widespread enough for Twitter to put a warning message on all members’ home pages alerting them of the issue.

For one of the world’s most popular websites to be compromised and taken down, even for a few minutes, is a big problem. This type of thing should never happen, regardless of who is to blame. The site, which was inaccessible for about an hour starting around 10 p.m. PST, was defaced with the following image before it was taken offline. Chris Hoare, a Flickr user in Leicester, England, captured the screenshot :

The message at the bottom of the image appears to be written in Perso-Arabic script and when translated to English it read:

Iranian Cyber Army

THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY

iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM

U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don’t, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To….

NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN? USA?

WE PUSH THEM IN EMBARGO LIST

Take Care.

A Twitter update message posted at 11:28 p.m. said the site was “working to recovery from an unplanned downtime” and indicated that the incident was indeed a hijacking of Twitter’s DNS records:

“Twitter’s DNS records were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed. We are looking into the underlying cause and will update with more information soon.”