Third Major Attack On Twitter This Year

Another major attack was directed against the online social network website, Twitter. This was the third major attack this year. The attack was one of the simplest methods possible. An attacker acquired the password to the master account for Twitter's domain registry. The attacker redirected Twitter's domain names to an alternate website that advertised the origin of the attack coming from the "Iranian Cyber Army" with a corresponding gmail address to supposedly direct inquiries.

The attacks disabled the Twitter services for approximately two hours.