Chinese State-Run ‘Twitter’ Hacked at Launch
The Chinese state-run Twitter-style website was hacked at its launch and has gone offline, according to media reports.
The People’s Daily, a state-run newspaper in China, launched the micro-blogging service on Tuesday and it was down by Wednesday.
A hacker exploited the site and used it to send pop-up messages to users who visited the site. A number of the messages in the pop-ups pointed to the Internet restrictions in place in China that block a number of social networking sites.
Screenshots showing the messages from the site were posted on popular websites like Flickr. This site was the first social-networking site hosted by a government-run news organization. A number of other social-networking sites, including Twitter, are inaccessible in China due to censorship restrictions imposed by the government.
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