THE Syrian Electronic Army has hacked into several news websites, including the New York Times, The Telegraph and The Independent, blocking access for several hours.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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