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ovember 27, 2014 @10:12AM
ddtmm writes: The Syrian Electronic Army [wikipedia] 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 domain
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
Telegrapgh, Walmart and Facebook.
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