Persianblog.com, one of the largest Iranian blogging service providers (alexa) is hacked by a group who call themselves Iraqhack. A website with the same name, also mentioned in the hacked pages, confirms this. Persianblog is only one the handful of Iranian websites hacked by the group. The banner which showed up in one of the hacked pages, before it went down, included racial slurs against Iranians, specifically calling the Persian Gulf as “Arab Gulf”. The hackers, apparently, have managed to redirect Persianblog.com to another DNS server and thus steal the domain name, at least for a while. The service provider claims the data for tens of thousands of blogs on their servers has not been lost. The Iranian blogosphere is impatiently following the news, as Persianblog has been among the most convenient services for Iranian bloggers. This can strengthen the earlier calls for a mass immigration to Persian Wordpress, mainly motivated by threats from a close-to-state blogging service.
Update: It is back. The service provider states that they were attacked by Iraqi hackers but all blogs are intact.
Update II: As of now (11:21am Central Time), the main page is available but many of the blogs on Persianblog are still inaccessible (example, example).
Update III: Persianblog has temporarily moved to a new address. The hacker (or cracker?) group’s website is down (Thanks to Ella and Carlos).
Great people! They are telling that they are not racist, but of course they, open minded as they are, hate Iranians because Iranians are “insects”, because Iranians have “victimized arabs and bad worded them” and are “impure”. I particularly love their mention of “impurity” of Iranians. It seems that anybody who is not Arab or who do not believe in sunni Islam is bad (Christians or others are probably not that bad ;-) even if they are not Arabs ). I have no love for IRI or for IRI’s ruling religion, but this kind of thinking smacks sooo of medieval Europe that I think I am transformed to twelfth century. ( in retrospect………. no, I am transformed to reformation wars in Europe)
Kamangir: Thanks Ella. Although, I am not sure who these guys really are.
Comment by ella — July 18, 2007 @ 10:47 am
ups. pls read “transported” to the twelfth century i/o “transformed”.
Comment by ella — July 18, 2007 @ 10:55 am
Archer:There is a difference between hackers and crakers,I think.These guys are crakers or hackers?Thanks and good job.
Kamangir: I guess they are the bad ones, does that mean “hacker”?
Comment by Carlos — July 18, 2007 @ 3:42 pm
I agree with you.But is a problem of word definition.Many people think that hackers do not cause damage.But crackers yes.The term hacker is more well placed into the public opinion.
Kamangir: Then, these guys definitely were crackers.
Comment by Carlos — July 18, 2007 @ 4:10 pm
Archer
The hackers website now reads: The website you have requested has been cancelled
Let’s hope it will be their last appearance on the internet.
Carlos
I think that the time of solitary, good hacker is in the past. The legend still goes on, but the “real stuff” is disappearing. :-(
Kamangir: Thanks Ella.
Comment by ella — July 18, 2007 @ 6:14 pm
Their own website has been hacked – let me guess this is the second round to the Iran and Iraq war, this time in the virtual world!
Comment by City boy — July 19, 2007 @ 11:10 am
Update III: Persianblog has temporarily moved to a new address. The hacker (or cracker?) group’s website is down (Thanks to Ella and Carlos)
Comment by An Irani Person — July 26, 2007 @ 6:23 am