Leading Chinese Search Engine Sues US Domain Registrar Over Hacking
Leading Chinese Search Engine Sues US Domain Registrar Over Hacking
Posted 01/20/2010 at 7:59pm
| by Pulkit Chandna
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China's leading search engine Baidu has pinned the entire blame for the recent attack on its site on American domain registrar Register.com. The hackers, who identified themselves as the Iranian Cyber Army, had disrupted Baidu's services for hours on January 12. They diverted all traffic meant for Baidu.com – the Chinese site (Baidu.cn) wasn't affected – to a page maintained by them.
Baidu has wasted little time in slamming Register.com with a lawsuit for "gross negligence" on the latter's part. It said in a statement that the registrar's negligence abetted the attack on its site. But the domain registrar believes that Baidu has no case against it and its suit is without merit.
"Register.com takes cyber-terrorism very seriously and we are working closely with federal law enforcement officials who are investigating this crime as well as the recent similar attacks on Twitter and Google," a spokesperson for Register.com said. The same group that hacked Baidu had also attacked Twitter last month.
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nekollx
January 21, 2010 at 10:01am
You know just the other day i was thinking, "Brain? We need more pointless lawsuits."
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mesiah
January 20, 2010 at 9:49pm
Me no fault! You fault!
We to go china, emphasize your ignorance by blaming a 3rd party. Instead of wasting your time posturing so you don't look like you have egg on your face, how about you actually find out who was behind the attacks and stick them in one of your lovely work camps.... Or better yet, make them work in one of your mines :)
snapple00
January 20, 2010 at 9:40pm
This crap has got to stop!
People need to take responsibility and work towards fixing the damn problem rather than simply blaming the other side.
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