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Report: Search engine Baidu.com hijacked
By Zhao Chunzhe (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-01-12 11:04
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Access to China's leading search engine has returned to normal following an alleged hacking incident which crippled the website for several hours.
Visitors to Baidu.com could not access the site early Tuesday and received an error message when they tried to enter the website address.
An Internet engineer named Philips with chinadaily.com.cn said at the time "Technically, Baidu.com may have been hijacked now."
However Baidu insiders insisted the site, which has the most advanced servers and hacker defense system, would not be offline for long.
It returned to normal service around 2pm.
