A pro-hacker group, aligned with president very well known as Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has again gained the media attention by adding the popular sites, i.e. eBay UK and PayPal UK to its victim list. The group said that the attack is not to target account information of people instead was ‘Purely a Hacktivist Operation’ with the reason behind is the discrimination of Syrian citizens by PayPal company. PayPal’s senior director of global initiatives, told Mashable, “We take the security and privacy of our customers very seriously”
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2014/02/ebay-and-paypal-uk-website-hacked-by.html