The Syrian pro-Assad hacktivist group today hacked and downed many media website mostly from United Kingdom.
The hack came at wee hours of Thursday but was well coordinated attack one.
A part of our website run by a third-party was compromised earlier today.
We’ve removed the component.
No Telegraph user data was affected.
Gigiya
It seems like the SEA struck popular social login service Gigya.
Gigiya is a popular customer identity management platform provider for many of the websites hacked by SEA.
Most of the websites hacked by SEA used the integrated Gigiyas solutions for customer managements.
Therefore it is plausible that the preliminary hack of Gigiya may have caused the resultant mass hacking.
It had received $35 million funding led by Intel Capital couple weeks ago.
SEA also announced the hacks on its Twitter feed: Happy thanks giving, hope you didnt miss us!
The press: just dont pretend #ISIS are civilians.
#SEA
Happy thanks giving, hope you didn’t miss us!
Weve removed the component.
No Telegraph user data was affected.
As of now following websites are confirmed hacks.
CNBC and CNBCNews
10.
French football club Toulouse FC
15.
Canadian Broadcaster CBC
16.
NY Daily News
17.
This could mean that they have enough ammo to launch another hack attack of this scale.
It was just a message.
source: www.techworm.net
