U.S. Central Command Twitter feed hacked
BY CHARLES HOSKINSON | JANUARY 12, 2015 | 1:17 PM
The Twitter feed of U.S. Central Command - which controls all U.S. troops in the Middle East and south Asia - was hijacked Monday by hackers claiming to be from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
The hackers posted a message: "AMERICAN SOLDIERS, WE ARE COMING, WATCH YOUR BACK. ISIS," and then posted rosters of what appeared to be a list of home addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of retired U.S. Army generals, with slides of intelligence collection priorities in China and possible war scenarios on the Korean peninsula.
The command's website appeared normal, minus the hacked Twitter feed.
A spokesman for the command, when reached by phone at the headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., would not comment, saying officials would later have a statement on what had happened.
SOURCE: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/u.s.-central-command-twitter-feed-hacked/article/2558532
The Twitter feed of U.S. Central Command - which controls all U.S. troops in the Middle East and south Asia - was hijacked Monday by hackers claiming to be from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
The hackers posted a message: "AMERICAN SOLDIERS, WE ARE COMING, WATCH YOUR BACK. ISIS," and then posted rosters of what appeared to be a list of home addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of retired U.S. Army generals, with slides of intelligence collection priorities in China and possible war scenarios on the Korean peninsula.
The command's website appeared normal, minus the hacked Twitter feed.
A spokesman for the command, when reached by phone at the headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., would not comment, saying officials would later have a statement on what had happened.
SOURCE: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/u.s.-central-command-twitter-feed-hacked/article/2558532