"Happy thanks giving, hope you didn't miss us! The press: Please don't pretend #ISIS are civilians. #SEA",

reads a tweet on the Syrian Electronic Army's official Twitter Account, with a screenshot of Gigya.com's GoDaddy account marked with Syrian Electronic Army's Logo.

On Thursday Evening, Syrian Electronic Army hacked various western media websites including PC World, CNBC, NBC, The LA Times, The Evening Standard, Forbes and many more. People who visited these websites, was shown a popup saying,

"You've been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army(SEA)".

The Syrian Electronic Army was quite low from some time. It regained its supremacy and showed this by taking over a number of sites in a spree. Most of the websites which were hacked, are from UK.

The attack is supposed to be done by exploiting Gigya's, the social login service, godaddy account. Gigya is popular customer identity management platform for these hacked websites. Most of the websites hacked are found to be using Gigya service. Therefore, it is evident that firstly the Gigya account was compromised, which resulted in further hackings.

According to the sources, the SEA somehow hacked Gigya CDN and injected with a Javascript code which caused all he sites to show the popup. Thus, the visitors of all the websites were shown with a welcome message as told above.

The list of the confirmed websites that got hacked is as follows:

1. Independent.

2. The Telegraph

3. OK Magazine

4. PC World

5. Chicago Tribune

6. Forbes

7. Ferrari

8. NBC

9. CNBC and CNBCNews

10. Appledaily.hk

11. NHL

12. Daily Express

13. French football club Toulouse FC

15. Canadian Broadcaster CBC

16. NY Daily News

17. Beatport

18. LA Times

19. Computer World.

20. Christies Inc

21. NatGEO

22. Dell

23. Intel Germany

The security expert Nadim Kobeissi, confirmed the statement that attackers may have gained access to the Gigya accounts and thus attacking one of those services allows hackers to add their own code to many other websites, as done by the SEA.

"People think that the CBC is hacked, someone infiltrated the CBC. Really it's nothing like that, he added.

In Thursday's attack, the SEA appears to have changed code at GoDaddy to point users to an SEA-controlled server, instead of Gigya like telling someone to drive into the middle of Lake Ontario when they ask how to get to Pearson airport.

Gigya said in a statement on Thursday that no user data had been compromised, and that its services were not at risk. Still, Gigya confirmed on Thursday that the group was able to serve its own JavaScript code to anyone visiting a compromised website. By injecting their own JavaScript, they could have tried to fool users into revealing usernames and passwords to Facebook accounts or other services they might use on a website like the CBC.