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The Centcom ‘hack’ that wasn’t
Washington Post ^ | December 12 January | Brian Fung and Andrea Peterson

Posted on 01/12/2015 8:23:01 PM PST by MeshugeMikey

Hackers claiming links to the Islamic State have hijacked several social media accounts belonging to U.S. military's Central Command. The hacking group, which calls itself "CyberCaliphate," is tweeting out what the group claims are U.S. military PowerPoints and data on retired Army personnel — seemingly sensitive files that have no business being publicly aired. The images are meant to show that the hackers have penetrated the Pentagon's network. But the chances of this actually having happened appear rather slim. Here's why.

Much of the information being shared by Centcom's hijacked Twitter feed is publicly available from other sources and appears to be nonclassified information. This is important because the hackers clearly want to make it seem as though they've successfully pulled off a major data breach.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: centcom; hacking
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1 posted on 01/12/2015 8:23:01 PM PST by MeshugeMikey
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Why does CENTCOM even have a Twitter account? WTF do they need one?


2 posted on 01/12/2015 8:25:32 PM PST by PGR88
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To: MeshugeMikey; blueyon; KitJ; T Minus Four; xzins; CMS; The Sailor; ab01; txradioguy; Jet Jaguar; ...

Active Duty ping.


3 posted on 01/12/2015 8:25:40 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: MeshugeMikey

Anoyomous says the
attack came from Maryland.


4 posted on 01/12/2015 8:25:41 PM PST by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: PGR88

they needed on because the regime convinced then they needed one

somebody had to play the victim so the Net Neutrality fiasco would be accepted by duh people


5 posted on 01/12/2015 8:27:11 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: PGR88

I’d guess it’s a sucker account....and a couple suckers bit.
So it’s a real account that’s not really real...


6 posted on 01/12/2015 8:27:26 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Mmogamer

yep....

the Baltimore Chapter of Isis no doubt...


7 posted on 01/12/2015 8:27:53 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Mmogamer

Beat me to it...


8 posted on 01/12/2015 8:28:34 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: Mmogamer

“american soldiers we are coming”....on second or third reading... sounds really tragically elementary school dramatic


9 posted on 01/12/2015 8:30:35 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Obies style hasnt changed a bit has it.


10 posted on 01/12/2015 8:31:05 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Sacajaweau
So it’s a real account that’s not really real...

For all we know, it get's hacked twice a month. It's just that mentioning it now served a purpose.

11 posted on 01/12/2015 8:32:08 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Mmogamer

Which doesn’t mean it’s not ISIS or some other Muslims.


12 posted on 01/12/2015 8:36:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Yeah, I thought it was funny that while the ‘attack’ was supposedly ongoing they added but “it’s nothing classified.”

Of course not - it was for the purposes of distracting from Obamafiasco and for potential use in justifying more government control of the web.


13 posted on 01/12/2015 8:42:02 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: PGR88
Why does CENTCOM even have a Twitter account?

To paraphrase Sheldon Cooper, so they can "heart" various things.
14 posted on 01/12/2015 8:44:11 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: PGR88

#ObamaIsMyCIC #GiveOurBunkersBack #OutFlankingIsntFair


15 posted on 01/12/2015 8:48:07 PM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

How did they post that list of soldiers names and addresses?


16 posted on 01/12/2015 8:48:09 PM PST by Beowulf9
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If you have the skilz it's not hard to get pics from
top secret anti-terrorist surveillance facilities.
I hacked in and got this one in less than two minutes.


17 posted on 01/12/2015 8:48:14 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

A Reichstag Fire to justify the government takeover of the Internet.


18 posted on 01/12/2015 8:48:34 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: MeshugeMikey

The cyber hack was directed by Obama directly,
or indirectly his “sons” ISIS in Maryland,
enabled by the docile, uncaring and EXEMPT Congress.


19 posted on 01/12/2015 8:54:50 PM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Mmogamer
Maryland.

And where is the NSA's headquarters? Maryland.

20 posted on 01/12/2015 9:00:41 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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