Baidu, Inc., China’s leading search engine may be considering a lawsuit against Register.com Inc. for their breach of contract and gross negligence along with the recklessness that is being associated by hackers.

 

The New York federal court is allowing Baidu to proceed with their lawsuit that was filed in January of this year.

 

On January 11^th, of this year an attack by hackers prevented users from around the world to gain access to Baidu as service had been disrupted in its operations for an attack that lasting two days. Baidu currently holds the biggest share of the Chinese online search market.

 

The January 11 attack prevented Internet users around the world from gaining access to Baidu for five hours and disrupted its operations for two days, according to the lawsuit. Baidu holds the greatest share of the Chinese online search market.

 

The hackers have called themselves the Iranian Cyber Army which hijacked Baidu’s home page by gaining unauthorized access to Baidu’s account at Register. Also prior to this the same hackers claimed to do the same thing to the popular micro blogging site of Twitter.

 

Baidu is accusing Register.com service representative of allowing an intruder that falsely claimed to be an agent of Baidu to access their account and doing so without the properly matched security codes.

 

If Baidu proves this accusation, Register Inc.com indeed failed to follow their own security protocols and essentially gave this intruder the capability to commit cyber vandalism. A jury may indeed find that Register.com acted grossly negligent and as well in a wreck less manner.

 

A judge dismissed five out of seven claims against Register.com over this breach including trademark infringement and aiding and abetting the hacker criminals.

 

Baidu has expanded their market base since Google, Inc had threatened to leave China over its censorship and hacking concerns.