Twitter DNS hacked?

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Submission + - Twitter DNS hacked?

Submitted by ylecoyote on Friday December 18, 2009 @02:34AM

ylecoyote writes: It looks like someone has hacked the twitter.com DNS as the primary A record for twitter.com is pointing to 66.147.242.88.

The lookup on that IP address shows the following:
IP address: 66.147.242.88
Host name: box488.bluehost.com

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