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The domain name servers of the New York Times, Twitter and Huffington Post UK have been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army



From Silicon Republic:
The domain name servers of the New York Times, Twitter and Huffington Post UK have been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army. The army gained access to registry records after attacking registrar Melbourne IT and took the newspaper’s site offlne after changing contact details and domain name servers.

Melbourne IT is regarded as one of the most secure DNS registrars and is used by large organisations like Twitter and the Huffington Post.
  New York Times and Twitter DNS registrar hacked by Syrian Electronic Army