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A Syrian Group Just Hacked The U.S. Army Website And Left This Mysterious Message
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A group affiliated with the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad took responsibility Monday for hacking the U.S. Army’s public website and forcing it offline.
The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) sent multiple tweets out Monday with screenshots from images it posted to the Army.mil website. (Scroll down to see one of them.)
One popup message on Army.mil read: “Your commanders admit they are training the people they have sent you to die fighting.”
The message references a training program, which Western Journalism reported about last week, for moderate fighters who pledge to back ISIS, many of whom also oppose the Assad regime. The United States military has avoided any direct confrontation with the dictator in the 10 months since American airstrikes began against ISIS targets in Syria.
The U.S. Army confirmed the hacking of its website on Monday. “Today an element of the Army.mil service provider’s content was compromised,” explained Army Brig. Gen. Malcolm B.Frost. “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 SEA began tweeting images from the hacked website at 1pm; and at approximately 3pm, the Army took the website down.
SEA has claimed responsibility in the past for breaching military sites and others including the U.S. Army Central Command’s Twitter account last year, as well as the Washington Post’s mobile site earlier this year. In 2013, the group caused a momentary stock market panic when it hacked the Associated Press’ Twitter account in 2013 and announced the White House had been attacked.
This post originally appeared on Western Journalism – Equipping You With The Truth
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/a-syrian-group-just-hacked-the-u-s-army-website-and-left-this-mysterious-message/
