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Baidu sues US company after attack |
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Baidu.com, China's leading search engine, has sued a US Internet firm after a cyber-attack paralyzed its site last week. Baidu is seeking damages from its US domain name registration service provider Register.com, Inc, the Beijing-based company said in a statement. The website was paralyzed for several hours after a cyber-attack on Jan 12, denied access to users. The attackers posted a message in red saying, "This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army." It is believed the unidentified "Iranian Cyber Army" changed Baidu's domain name server records and redirected traffic to another website. "Register.com, Inc's gross negligence resulted in severe damage to the company," the statement said. The company declined to detail its losses and did not disclose the damages it is seeking. The search engine, which claims 70 percent of China's Internet search market, had only been down once previously, for half an hour in December 2006. |
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