Syrian Electronic Army hacks Facebook domain

The pro-Assad Syrian Electronic Army claimed Wednesday that it managed to hack into Facebook, a after the social network's tenth anniversary.

The hacker group first claimed to subvert Facebook.com in a tweet published at approximately 6:30 EST. A cursory search of the WHOIS domain registrar indicated that the email address tied to Facebook had indeed been changed to a Syrian gmail account.

The SEA claimed it was able to change Facebook's servers but the process had to be abandoned because it was “taking too much time.” The alleged hack did not impact Facebook's operations.

Half an hour after the SEA tweet, the domain name returned to domain@fb.com, indicating that Facebook and MarkMonitor - a domain management firm - had rectified the error and prevented any serious impact.

In August 2013, while the US was looking into the possibility of joining the ongoing Syrian civil war and attempt to remove Assad from power, the SEA hacked The Huffington Post, The New York Times, and other news entities deemed by the hackers as hostile towards Assad.