Hackers Hijack US Army Website
Yesterday, Brigadier General Malcolm Frost announced that the US Army's Website, Army.mil, had been hacked.
"After this came to our attention, the Army took appropriate preventive
measures to ensure there was no breach of Army data by taking down the
website temporarily." The Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-Assad hacker
group that has been critical of US foreign policy, took credit for the
attack on Twitter.

They've
been around since 2011, and though their exact relationship with the
Assad government is unclear, they've been known to deface and hijack the
websites of mainstream news outlets, and the Facebook pages of
politicians. In this latest attack, they directly targeted a website
frequented by US Army personnel, and presumably potential recruits.
Anyone visiting army.mil yesterday would have been greeted with the
following message:
The message is most likely in reference to recently exposed documents
that prove the US government has been largely responsible for the rise
of ISIS. As of this writing, no mention of the hack can be seen on
Army.mil.
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