Visitors to hundreds of sites were greeted with this pop-up message: 'you've been hacked by SEA', which redirected automatically to an image of the group's logo, an image of an eagle bearing the Syrian flag and a message in Arabic.
Happy thanks giving, hope you didn't miss us! The press: Please don't pretend #ISIS are civilians. #SEA http://ift.tt/15Di3Df
- SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA16) November 27, 2014
The SEA - a collective that supports the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad - also targeted the London Evening Standard, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and retail giant Wal-Mart.
Technology experts believe no user data was exposed in the attacks, which coincided with the Thanksgiving holiday in the US.
A Twitter account affiliated with the SEA posted an image that appeared to show it accessed the GoDaddy account of gigya.com, Reuters reports.
The company - which counts the NFL, NBA and NHL professional sports leagues, and media outlets including CBS, NBC, Forbes, CNN, al Jazeera and Fox among its customers - helps businesses identify those who visit their websites.
Gigya told Reuters a breach at its domain registrar, GoDaddy, resulted in traffic to its site being redirected, but that the problem had been fixed.
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