Syrian Electronic Army's own website got hacked by Turkish hacker

Oops.. Hackers got Hacked! The Syrian Electronic Army, who has hacked hundreds of High Profile targets in 2013-14, today they got hacked by a Turkish hacker.

Turkguvenligi, a Turkish hacker told The Hacker News that he hacked and defaced the official website of the hacking group SEA.

SEA Group has taken down many serious targets like Microsoft, Obama & New York Times' twitter accounts & websites in the past, but today their own server got breached.

The most common hacking technique used by the SEA Group is  Phishing , but the Turkguvenligi hacked then using an exploit known for vulnerabilities in the server or website.

At the time of writing this news, the whole website of SEA was down, but our readers can see the defacement mirror on Zone-H

Turkguvenligi  tagged SEA in a tweet  hi guys, you have been hacked:

The Syrian Electronic Army group has not commented anything about the hack, but We'll keep you updated, so stay tuned.

Update:Turkguvenligi told us that he also hacked into some of the SEA's personal websites, hosted on the same server and managed to successfully gain the access to hosting panel, which gave them access to RAID device also.

Statement from SEA Group:

The hosting company that hosts #SEA websites, including (http://leaks.sea.sy) was attacked... (sea.sy) was not affected. Since the #SEA servers is managed by the hosting company, they down the servers quickly to make sure that will not happen again. Such attacks will not affect the #SEA, we will continue our hacks and operations.

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Anonymous hacks MIT website on anniversary of Aaron Swartz suicide

The project’s webpage is still defaced as of this writing and carries the title “THE DAY WE FIGHT BACK”.

This day exactly a year ago Aaron Swartz, the co-founder of Reddit, Creative Commons and Demand Progress, committed suicide in New York city, which his family believes was because of MIT and an overzealous Department of Justice prosecution.

Anonymous defaced the website as a part of Operation Last Resort, which is in retaliation for the suicide. “We decided to hack MIT again in 2014 on the anniversary with a second tribute to Aaron Swartz http://cogen.mit.edu/ #TheDayWefightback”, read a tweet from OpLastResort.
February 14 is commemorated as a protest day “The Day We Fight Back” in honor of Aaron Swartz to highlight and draw attention to the role played by the activist in the victory over the Stop Online Piracy Act.
This is not the first time MIT has been hacked as Anonymous, under its Operation Last resort, has targeted MIT two times prior to today’s hack. The first instance was just hours after Swartz’s suicide last year and the second hack, which was a rather huge one, was on January 22, 2013.