Cybersecurity incident — 2015-03-31 00:00:00
Affected organization: Hostgator
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Syrian Electronic Army
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Syrian Arab Republic

The pro-Bashar Al Assad hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army claim to have hacked popular hosting companies running under the Endurance International Group. The list of hacked hosting companies include Bluehost, Fastdomain, Hostgator, Hostmonster and Justhost.