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The Syrian Electronic Army has hacked a number of global news websites with this picture SEA

The pro-Assad hacktivist group, the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), is continuing to cause major headaches for a number of high profile news websites on Black Friday (28 November) across the globe, by hacking into a comment system that many outlets all use.

The Independent website is still struggling to regain all its function as users are met with a notification saying "You've been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA)" and then are blocked from visiting the page.

On 27 November (the day which the US celebrates its Thanksgiving holiday) The Independent, Chicago Tribune, Italian newspaper Repubblica, CNBC, Forbes, and the Telegraph, were just a few of the websites affected by the hacking.

It is believed that websites using the popular Gigya comment platform were affected by the outage after the hackers posted a picture of service, which is owned by American-Israeli company Godaddy.com, on its Twitter page.

The SEA have since put the following on Twitter:

They even mock the prolific number of 'popups' by using a Toy Story meme.

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