Twitter hacked by Iranian Cyber Army

Iranian Cyber Army claims to control and manage internet by their power by wiping out Twitter Thursday

Paige Maynard

Around 10 p.m. Thursday evening, Twitter users logged in to the Web site to find an unusual message from the Iranian Cyber Army claiming that they, not the U.S., controlled and managed the internet.
Techcrunch has the full message, if you want to read the bizarre rantings of the ICA.
The Iranian Cyber Army apparently not only hacked in to Twitter, but also Mowjcamp. The company updated its status blog after the hack saying, “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.”
Twitter managed to get back up, but the other Web site is still affected. The microblogging service issued a warning to all their users saying that if you use the same password for your Twitter as you do with other websites, now may be a good time to change it.
So why did the Iranian Cyber Army target Twitter? Let’s let TechCrunch take over:

“There is a history between Iran and Twitter. It was well noted and covered in the media that Twitter was used as a tool during the Iranian election protests. The US government actually intervened to assure that Twitter was available to the protesters in Tehran and around the country. This attack may be an act of reprisal from groups who were not happy with the role that Twitter played during the protests.”.
Not to mention the fact that the Internet helped spread footage of protester Neda Agha-Soltan being shot and killed, an event which helped mobilize Iranian election protesters.
With the maneuver of the Iranian Cyber Army, Twitter finds itself once again being no stranger to hacking. Nearly two months ago their web servers were misconfigured to reveal internal network information. And let’s not forget about french man Hacker Croll stealing over 300 confidential Twitter documents and sending them to various websites to publish.
It is unclear who the Iranian Cyber Army is at this time or if they are actually the responsible party behind this Twitter hacking.
So it seems like Twitter still has some kinks to work out when it comes to protecting their databases and passwords. May we suggest calling up Mark Zuckerberg? He claims to know a thing or two about privacy settings.