Syrian Electronic Army Takes Credit For News Site Hacking

New submitter ddtmm writes The Syrian Electronic Army is claiming responsibility for the hacking of multiple news websites, including CBC News. Some users trying to access the CBC website reported seeing a pop-up message reading: "You've been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA)." It appears the hack targeted a network used by many news organizations and businesses. A tweet from an account appearing to belong to the Syrian Electronic Army suggested the attacks were meant to coincide with the U.S. Thanksgiving on Thursday. The group claimed to have used the domain Gigya.com, a company that offers businesses a customer identity management platform, to hack into other sites via GoDaddy, its domain registrar. Gigya is "trusted by more than 700 leading brands," according to its website. The hacker or hackers redirected sites to the Syrian Electronic Army image that users saw. Gigya's operations team released a statement Thursday morning saying that it identified an issue with its domai registrar at 6:45 a.m. ET. The breach "resulted in the redirect of the Gigya.com domain for a subset of users," the company said. Among the websites known to be hacked so far are New York Times, Chicago Tribune, CNBC, PC World, Forbes, The Telegraph, Walmart and Facebook.

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Threat level alpha omega

[OverlyGenericUsernam]

Syrian Electronic Army has truly shown that they are a force to be reckoned with by inconveniencing a handful of websites.
I haven't really heard of them, but apparently they are a thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Electronic_Army

Re:Focus on ISIS instead?

[ihtoit]

because the enemy of Syria is in fact Qatar's allies, like the US, the UK and Turkey.

Qatar want a gas pipeline to Europe. Turkey doesn't want it passing through its Eastern desert region. Qatar already has installation rights guaranteed by US occupation forces in Kuwait and Iraq. Syria told Qatar in not so many words to politely fuck off, they're not planting a pipeline through some of the most fertile arable land in the Middle East, so Qatar asked its allies (the US and the UK) to install a pretext to aggressively insert a policing and occupation force (the next inevitable step) into Syria to quell destabilising elements (AKA ISIS/ISIL/TNGAQA (The Next Great American Quad Acronym)) which will already have established as a threat to stability in the entire region. Oh, look, that last step is the only piece of the puzzle still not in place.

OK, commence to calling me a tinpot fucking nutjob. Just remember who the fuck told you so.