The largest Chinese search engine Baidu.com hacked Iranian hackers
Baidu (百度), the largest Internet portal and search engine in China, was "defeisnut" on Tuesday morning and most of the site’s services are not available.
Hackers from the Iranian Cyber Army changed the DNS records and redirected traffic to another site. ')
According to a source from the company “Baidu”, the effects of hacking are almost eliminated and the site will return online in half an hour. But still baidu.com is not available at the moment (12:00 Beijing time).
Baidu.com is the leader among Chinese search engines (more than 77% of the market). By the number of requests processed, the Baidu search site ranks 3rd in the world (3 billion 428 million; with a share in the global search of 5.2%). With the launch of the Japanese version surely overtook Microsoft.