The well-known hacktivist team Syrian Electronic Army attempted to attack several major websites, including Google, Yahoo, Amazon and the Facebook after hacking that they performed on the systems of the domain management service provider MarkMonitor.
It seems that MarkMonitor stopped the attack before the hacktivist group from Syria caused a major damage. However, the screenshots posted by the Syrian Electronic Army on Twitter show that they had already gained access to its administration panels MarkMonitor for Google, The Yahoo, The Amazon and Facebook.
Shortly before MarkMonitor's technicians detected the attack and managed to close the management panel to prevent hackers from taking further action, SEA published a screenshot showing that Facebook had already begun to change.
The image shows that the addresses of the registrants had been changed to one from Damascus. The message accompanying the screenshot states,”Happy Birthday Mark! Facebook.com belongs to SEA. "
