Hacking group Syrian Electronic Army today breached and
defaced websites belonging to PayPal UK and eBay, though each website was
resolving without issue or defacement after the announcement was made.
SEA PayPal Ebay hackThe SEA provided its evidence on Twitter, with an example of what appeared to be PayPal.co.uk's website with a fresh deface, and a second follow-up tweet labeled "Internal Paypal communications confirming penetration."
The Twitter account used by the Syrian Electronic Army for the announcement has since been suspended.
PayPal confirmed the security breach telling ZDNet via
email, "PayPal's Sr. Director of Global Initiatives notes that the problem
was limited to marketing pages in the UK, France, and India redirecting, that
it has been resolved, and no user data was compromised."
PayPal did not provide an explanation regarding the display
of its paypal.co.uk URL in the evidence of the hack as provided by the Syrian
Electronic Army.
Nor did PayPal address the eBay UK forum members who tried
to visit eBay.co.uk and experienced what they described as an hour-long outage
of eBay's primary UK website from a Syrian Electronic Army attack.
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