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The Iranian Cyber Army has done it again. Their clever team of hackers has taken hostage of Baidu.com, China’s largest search engine. Baidu, pronounced “Bidu” is to China what Google is to the rest of the English-speaking world.

Sources say those in China trying to log onto Baidu.com are currently being redirected to the Iranian cyber Army’s splash page, while people in other countries are still able to log onto Baidu.

Some are speculating the search engine was targeted due to Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Although nothing has been confirmed, we are leaning towards the idea that the Iranian cyber Army is an undercover Google coy, in which case Google insiders are having a field day. After all, Baidu has led the way with a market share of over 77%, but perhaps not for long.

The breaking news comes after the “Iranian cyber Army” (aka Google hackers) successfully hacked Twitter last week. So who’s next?

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