Malaysia Airlines’ website 'compromised'

[UPDATED 26 Jan 2014 2:20pm: Adding statement from Malaysia Airlines.]

Malaysia Airlines’ website is back up after it was taken offline after it was allegedly hacked Monday morning.

"Malaysia Airlines confirms that its Domain Name System (DNS) has been compromised where users are re-directed to a hacker website whenwww.malaysiaairlines.com URL is keyed in," said a statement on its Facebook page.

At about 9am, the airline’s website was replaced with an image of a flying aircraft and the words “404- Plane Not Found” and “hacked by cybercaliphate”. Twitter accounts - @UMGROBERT and @UMGCHRIS - were listed and a hip-hop track titled “Lizard Squad” by Billy the Fridge was played.

Anonymous hacker collective Lizard Squad claimed responsibility, posting a tweet on their Twitter account @LizardMafia at 8:39am, warning that they were going to ”dump some loot found on malaysiairlines.com servers soon".

Malaysia Airlines redirected customers who would like to book flights to another URL link.

"To check-in online, kindly visit http://bit.ly/1twPdIB . We thank you for your patience and kind understanding," they said in a tweet.

Lizard Squad made headlines in December for disabling Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony’s PlayStation Network on Christmas day. The hackers also charge a fee that allow anyone to use its services to launch DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks on websites.

At about 10:30am, the image on the page was replaced with a photo of a reptile on a black background.  The “cybercaliphate” added Lizard Squad's Twitter account, @LizardMafia, into the list.

The Twitter profiles of @UMGROBERT and @UMG_CHRIS are the owner and CEO of a US-based online gaming company. Both posted replies on Twitter at 10.30am saying they had nothing to do with the hack.