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Iranian hackers brought down micro-blogging website Twitter for around two hours this morning.
The attack took place at around 6am and left the site's estimated 30million users unable to send messages or post 'tweets'.
The main Twitter homepage had been replaced with a black and red screen featuring an image of a green flag.
The page carried the message: 'This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army.
The site reappeared around two hours later, with staff telling users: 'We are working to recovery from an unplanned downtime and will update more as we learn the cause of this outage.'
It is believed that Twitter's DNS records were hijacked in the attack meaning that users who were trying to visit the site were actually redirected to the new page.
The DNS, which stands for Domain Name System, connects the name of a website, in this case twitter.com, to the servers which hold its contents.
A short statement was issued on the company's blog.
The site reappeared around two hours later, with staff telling users: 'We are working to recovery from an unplanned downtime and will update more as we learn the cause of this outage.'
It is believed that Twitter's DNS records were hijacked in the attack meaning that users who were trying to visit the site were actually redirected to the new page.
The DNS, which stands for Domain Name System, connects the name of a website, in this case twitter.com, to the servers which hold its contents.
A short statement was issued on the company's blog.
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