China’s #1 search engine, Baidu, was hacked yesterday morning. Here are some of images of the Baidu homepage that were posted by Chinese internet users on the popular Mop BBS discussion forum, before Baidu was able to fix the situation. Below are some translated Chinese netizen reactions.
Comments from Mop:
穆特:
At first I thought my computer had a virus…
低调⌒μ:
9:49 [am], still cannot get on…forcefully inserting my stool here, waiting to watch the show.
老猫上树打望:
Sichuan people send a congratulatory telegram.
我爱齐达内:
Fuck, its true! Just now I couldn’t open it, and I thought there was something wrong with my internet, but turns out it was hacked.
风尘所以:
Baidu, stop losing face for Chinese people, ding this up.
七家:
Iranian Cyber Army is this NB?
你是文具盒:
I announce my responsibility for this incident.
Hey，小是。:
Actually, shanzhai Baidu can still be used right now.
www.baodi.com
Lv_3【网-今天你网了吗？】:
The truth behind Baidu being hacked: Why do Iranians want to hack Baidu? The truth has already been announced. Political protest is only the superficial reason, but in reality — as a result of American military threats and crackdowns, Iranians are preparing to buy a large amount of missiles, so they came to Baidu to search, but upon encountering Baidu’s paid advertising placement, Iranians chose to buy the missiles from the first search result, and when they received them discovered they were cheated. Unable to control their anger, the Iranians hacked Baidu.
[This is a criticism of Baidu selling search result positions to questionable companies.]
聖水:
Baidu cups!
十個她不如你一個:
Fuck, such a big incident, should we retaliate?
挖口井埋人:
Some of the DNS were hacked that’s all, just changing the address to somewhere else~ What is on the home page is indeed Iran [Iranian Cyber Army]…with the DNS changed to 8.8.8.8, aside from www, all the other addresses should work, but this time Baidu definitely embarrassed [themselves/us]~
碧魂:
We have a test today! Li Yanhong jia you, you want us to die?
[Li Yanhong is the founder and chairman of Baidu.]
没钱凑热闹:
Iran is so uncultured/uneducated, it is America that meddles with them, and Google is American, Baidu is Chinese!!!
靠还有比我注册更晚的:
Where are China’s hackers? Retaliate!!!
There is big news about Google China today too. We will post about it soon.
Not yet hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army. chinaSMACK personals.
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Is this the actions of the government or the people of Iran? The people are currently involved in public protests against their government. This is a cry for attention. Lend your support to the Iranian people!
They are pro-government Iranians. Some articles stated the same group hacked twitter before.
why should pro-governement Iranians hack baidu? Sounds to me like a false flag operation.
For shits ‘n giggles. A lot of random sites get hacked for seemingly no reason by seemingly random groups. Who knows…maybe something in Iran was hacked prior, and all leads pointed to China?
Just like the pro-governement Chinese hackers hacking Japanese sites? :->
You mean like anti governement Chinese hackers hacking Japanese sites. Come on this whole story stinks. Why should an pro iranian government group hack a chinese search engine? Maybe some guys from google are behind the attack. Sweet Revenge or something like that. This story would at least make sense.
Yeah, because Google obviously operates under the immature rules that the rest of the Chinese businesses seem to operate under. Then, on top of that, they randomly pick an Iranian group to pose as, rather than someone relevant that would make it look more realistic. Real plausible, indeed.
i always just assumed people who do stuff like this are all teenagers, because they never do anything useful or truly funny.
Sofa! I think this is going to be interesting. I have no opinion on this but I’m revved up for the google china issue.
Ironic that Baidu would get hacked around the same time that Google announced it’s plan to say “fuck it” and stop censoring itself and threaten to take their ball and go home. This hacking crap is hilariously childish. Still funny, though.
I found this to be interesting. Baidu in Taiwan. I’m not sure what’s going on here, but it’s pretty funny. http://www.baidu.tw/
That’s awesome. Did it used to have a layout like Baidu in the PRC or was it 3rd party?
at least Google’s JV in Iran is going well
Same people that took out Twitter..
those Iranian hackers were supposed to hack google, not baidu X(
Is there tension between Iran and China or not? I do know there’s tension between Pakistan and Iran over Balochistan and terrorists and stuff and that China is a close Pakistani ally but otherwise I’m not really sure.
Iran has quite good connections to the DPRK.
I’m thinking the govt did this to try to take attention off of Google now.
Way to steal their thunder.
Government hackers don’t do this kind of amateur and silly shit. They dig into your systems to steal financial, political, military and industrial secrets. And in China’s case, secrets from Chinese oppositions. And sometimes, they destroy your system. But they would never leave (or try to anyway) any traces of who they are let alone claim responsibility for it.
Whoever did this is probably some kid(s) who never had a girlfriend.
LOL, the Iranian muslim fundies are butthurt that China is cracking down on its own muslim fundies.
They hacked the website and the languages used are English and arabic, But no Chinese. They were smart enough to hack the site, but not smart enough to know that their target audience reads Chinese.
Nah it was just a way of flipping the bird to the viewers.
Chinese netsecurity is a joke. I am not surprised to see Baidu hacked so easily. Some prominent companies in China even insert their own trojans and other spyware in their software, and they aren’t able to keep vira out of it either. My girlfriend uses 4-5 Chinese programs regularly for chat/music/movies and stuff and every time she downloads an update and I run my screens I find 2-3 new unwanted “programmes”.
Occasionally the computer gets so fxxxxx up from the lovely little addons that I have to delete everything that even looks like it could be from a Chinese supplier. Unfortunately it only takes about 5 seconds before my gf has downloaded everything again and the virawar can continue.
This is why my wife has her computer, and I have mine. I don’t want any of that stuff on my computer.
Yes, I also caved and bought my wife a laptop after I got fed up with her programs slowing down my computer with viruses. The Chinese programs don’t work well on english windows. . Even major programs like Chinese QQ are full of adware and virus’ and near impossible to uninstall on english windows.
Baidu´s DNS in the – surprise, surprise – USA was hacked.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/011210-researcher-baidu-probably-attacked-from.html?hpg1=bn
HI I AM BAAAAAAAAAACKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!
WELL, sounds to me that this was chinese university students doing. Why the heck would any iranian hack such a shitty search engine like baidu, it would have been serious shit if it were google, but baidu, who gives a damn. SOME CHINESE COMPUTER GAME FANATIC DID THIS.
YOU ARE A REEEEEEEEEEEETARD!
Go and find out which company has its fingers in the Baidu pie.
I am so ashamed to be the same species as you.
Maybe you should do as one of the MOP readers did and forcefully insert your stool.
Until the “login to vote” thing goes away, I have to reply to let you know I laughed at the last two sentences pretty well.
If it were Chinese students, they would have claimed themselves USA or maybe Japan.
Food for thought. Could this have been students in Iran doing this to draw attention to the problems of the anti government citizens being arrested and killed in jail? I support anyone who would help the people of Iran fighting the sadistic government. Like several people said, makes no sense to hack baidu, but maybe that is the plan to make the chinese people think.
Nope, if you translate what they write you will see that they cite some shiite sultan.
I think this is going to be funny.
The 5th Iranian website: http://www.hrmbook.ir/ has been attacked by Chinese hackers.
Err, it has a picture of the PRC flag and reads “Republic of China.” Someone didn’t do their homework.
The funniest thing about this whole event has been the clasm of silence in Beijing and Tehran about these events – from officially saying no comment to blaming it on “Great Satan”/”the Evil Lama”/. Granted – other events have them occupied (from car bombings to multinational corporations issuing throwdowns) – but it is the silence speaks volumes. We do live in a multipolar world – where the enemy of your enemy is not always going to be your friend. Now the real fun is going to be in the next few weeks. If nothing occurs, even bet that the powers to be in Beijing and Tehran have put their dogs a leash. If more websites in P.R. China and Iran start going down, then it would appear that neither government has total control on the situation. However… if a massive Denial of Service attack occurs, a la Estonia and Georgia – then all bets are off.
I agree with your assessment at the bilateral void of official reaction. It is indeed striking that two nations who normally subject their respective populations to overwhelming control, should suddenly find themselves at a loss for words at such an act of open defiance (that affects both nations), but targeting one that they would least expect. The confused spread of Chinese reactions too are telling. No one yet quite knows how to even look at this, much less how to deal with it. Some Chinese offer congratulations while others demand retaliation. In other words, even the netizens whose opinions are generally polarized, don’t know which pole they’re looking at. If there was ever a situation for the internet analogous to a deer getting caught in the headlights, this was it. A truly remarkable moment, LOL…
It was on CCTV9 this morning. Not the lead story, but not the last one either.
It will screw up everyone with a gmail account if they start to block access to google services.
“Where are China’s hackers?”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…wait…
HAHHAHAHAHHAHA
ok, ok I’m finished. China’s hackers are still busy doing “amazing” things like being hired by people to hack accounts on QQ or message boards. SOOOOO AMAZING. Seriously, if your hackers spend all day breaking into things that you could just brute force yourself, there’s nothing you can really unofficially do against cyber attacks like this. China’s computer people are nothing to write home about.
Tell them this: Iranian Cyber Army, since you took down Baidu, my life has been a mess, I can’t get on Twitter,” lianyue wrote on Twitter. “We Chinese beg you to spare us.”
http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=27714
“9:49 [am], still cannot get on…forcefully inserting my stool here, waiting to watch the show.”
This is the most disturbingly hilarious translation I have ever read.
There is no logic to this attack. Iran and China are allies, China are building infrastructure over there in addition to helping them with arms tech.
The only reasonable conclusion is that they did it because they could – Baidu is huge in China, the world’s biggest net audience, and any hacker would want to bring it down purely for the prestige.
I think it’s not that simple.
Yes, the Chinese government and Chinese government do some work together, but, assuming this attack was not coordinated by the gov’t (which I severely doubt it was), I can think of many good reasons why certain Iranians might dislike China (misplaced dislike for the Chinese government).
Chinese-backed infrastructure projects are pretty controversial in many countries because the people feel that they are getting no benefit from them, while their leaders get rich.
Feel free to also factor in Islam. China is not exactly the US when it comes to problems with Islam, but it certainly has its own issues in that regard.
And they may just be opportunists. I don’t think security is the forte of a lot of Chinese net companies.
Chinese and IRANIAN government. Bleh.
you may be right
Thanks to Iranian Hacker team.congratulations. Greeting from RUSSIA.
Dumbass Chinese people.., haha
What Iranian cuber army did was not hacking; but. loneliness.
This is nothing compared with Chinese hackers. Chinese hackers even hack US embassy computers and keep everything hidden (paid by government, maybe…lol)
well as an iranian it was funny to see some racist comments insulting our people as uncultered from chinese!comeone! you eat dogs!atleast we iranians are a rare breed,what about you ?1 out of 5 people is chinese,we all know what happens in mass production of that scale!
I should also inform you that language you see there is not arabic it is farsi ,we use similar alphabet,like ueropeans have similar alphabet
since the iranian flag with islamic republic sign has been put there it is for sure a group supporter of the regime or someone who wanted it to seem so,because anti government regime use the flag without that sign in the midle,but why they would do that,iran and chinese goverment have good relations, i guess somebody has tried to cause some troubles there,or a hacker or some hackers have had some fun
It’s hilarious to see you brag about being born in a certain country. It’s as if it’s an actual achievement on your part. It’s also hilarious how you bitch about “racist comments” when you counter them by adding more “racist comments”. Iranian and Chinese aren’t races, by the way. It’s a nationality. So chill out.
Guys…don’t be misled…its the US CIA that is doing all this stuff to break the good relationship between US and Iran.
Who on earth will name something like iran cyber army..its too obvious…if i was a hacker…i put my name or my groups name…why would i say….US cyber army…its soo not cool
You should be careful…seeing as how you unearthed the CIA’s diabolical plan and blew a whistle on it. They’ll probably snuff you. Which government do you work for? Must be highly skilled.
But, I have to ask…since it was so obvious…why would the CIA make such a big mistake of making it too obvious?
baidu got again hacked i was jsut told. if you go on baidu and search “W” and go tot he 2nd page everything is a porno website viral ad.
also it seems like the new thing to say although it has been river crabbed id the phrase “非法献花” illegal flower tribute. sooo hilarious
here’s the website to its backround http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_flower_tribute
this is f’in hilarious
Iranian(I)Cyber(C)Army (A) ICA = CIA DUH! Likely a retaliation for the Google incident to show 2-way vulnerabilites exist.
I suppose, if this is real Iranian hackers doing, they are so fuckkingly st00pid.
If they are at war with US or something, an alliance will strenghten, not making another enemy like this.
but yes, in reality, arabs r dumb, you could never know what is inside dumb minds