The hacker group, appears to telephone phone itself "CyberCaliphate", managed to gain access to the CENTCOM social accounts, in addition to posted some screenshots of documents, allegedly internal CENTCOM documents, alongside links to what they described every bit leaked armed services files.
Meanwhile, YouTube page related to the the States military’s Central Command was laid to display propaganda videos inward back upwards of the terrorist grouping ISIS.
On Twitter, the grouping posted a Pastebin message that declared "Pentagon networks hacked. AMERICAN SOLDIERS WE ARE COMING, WATCH YOUR BACK. ISIS. #CyberCaliphate." Originally, a disceptation posted on pastebin shared past times the compromised CENTCOM work organisation human relationship reads:
"US in addition to its satellites kill our brothers inward Syria, Republic of Iraq in addition to Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan nosotros broke into your networks in addition to personal devices in addition to know everything close you.
You'll run across no mercy infidels. ISIS is already here, nosotros are inward your PCs, inward each armed services base. With Allah's permission nosotros are inward CENTCOM now.
We won't stop! We know everything close you, your wives in addition to children.
US soldiers! We're watching you!"
The postal service every bit good includes link to a .zip file labeled ‘US Army Files’ in addition to images depicting what appears to live on lists of names, addresses in addition to contact data of the the States Army members, every bit good every bit budget documents from concluding year.
Two videos were uploaded to the Centcom YouTube work organisation human relationship supporting ISIS, a Sunni Muslim terrorist grouping that operates inward the same geographic regions every bit Centcom. The commencement message posted to the Twitter work organisation human relationship was around 9:30 a.m. PST, spell the commencement YouTube videos showed upwards around an hr later.
Following the hack, both the Centcom’s Twitter in addition to YouTube accounts was suspended.
"We tin flaming confirm that the Centcom Twitter in addition to YouTube accounts were compromised before today," a Central Command spokesperson said. "We are taking appropriate measures to address the matter. We bring no farther data to supply at this time."
Centcom subsequently called the hack "cybervandalism," proverb no classified data was released in addition to none of its internal figurer servers was breached. None of the released data was terribly sensitive in addition to at that topographic point was "no operational impact" on armed services networks from a hacking incident carried out past times people claiming to live on working on behalf of of the Islamic State of Republic of Iraq in addition to the Levant (ISIL). Some of it is readily available on world websites.
The hack came simply moments after President Barack Obama concluded an address at the Federal Trade Commission headquarters inward Washington, DC, where he announced novel proposals aimed at bolstering American cybersecurity after high-profile hacking incidents including 1 against Sony Pictures Entertainment that U.S. officials blamed on North Korea.
