The group of hackers Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has monopolized the attention of the media,
the hacking team has practically hit every possible target within
government organizations, big enterprises and media agencies. The list
of victims is very crowded, last in order of time were CNN and Microsoft.
Today hackers of Syrian Electronic Army hacked PayPal and Ebay, the
group modified the DNS records of ebay.co.uk and paypal.co.uk defacing
their websites. SEA was able to hack into The Domain Registry of Paypal
and Ebay which is Managed by Mark Monitor.
The hackers have condemned the decision of the PayPal company to discriminate Syrian citizens:
The screenshot posted in the tweet revealed that the hackers accessed the Admin panel to edit the DNS information of the targeted websites.
According first information available on the attack, the Syrian Electronic Army has compromised the Mark Monitor account of Ebay and hacked the email account belonging to Paul Whitted, Sr. Manager, Site Engineering Center at eBay and posted screenshot of the internal communications.
It is still not clear how the Syrian Electronic Army hacked the account, at the time of writing this post both websites were restored to normal.
