The
twitter and YouTube accounts of the US military command were suspended for a
few hours after being hacked by a group claiming to be Islamic states.
On
the twitter Centcom’s feed it tweeted “American soldiers, we are coming, watch
your back” and another tweeted “In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the
Most Merciful, the CyberCaliphate continues it’s CyberJihad”.
The
tweets were said signed by ISIS, another name for the Islamic states. Some
internal military documents also appeared on the Centcom twitter feed.
Centcom
have however said it was “cyber vandalism” and not a serious data breach in a
statement released at the time of the news and that there was no operational
impact and no classified information was posted.
Embarrassingly,
it was also reported that the hack happened as President Barack Obama was
giving a speech on cyber-security when reflecting on major breaches like the
recent hack of Sony Pictures. He however promised that the vulnerabilities will
be put on check.
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