Breaking: IS-linked hackers seize US Centcom social media accounts
Centcom officials say the agency's account has now been suspended.
IS-linked group hacks US Centcomm Twitter and You Tube accounts
Published date: 13 February 2015 09:00 GMT
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Last update: 9 years 3 months ago
A group declaring sympathy for the Islamic State militant group hacked US Central Command's Twitter account and You Tube page Monday, posting internal military documents online.
Hackers with the self-declared "Cybercaliphate" wrote on Centcom's seized Twitter account that the group "is already here, we are in your PCs, in each military base."
The Twitter account of the agency, which oversees the US-led air war against IS in Iraq and Syria, has now been suspended
More to follow.
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