US MILITARY Key command’s Twitter, YouTube sites back online

Associated Press

WASHINGTON

The Twitter and YouTube sites for the U.S. military’s Central Command are back online after being taken over by hackers claiming to support the Islamic State militant group, and Pentagon officials are reviewing some security protocols in the wake of the breach.

Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said Tuesday that it is too soon to tell who the hackers are and where they got some of the official documents they placed on Central Command’s Twitter feed Monday. The documents included some personal phone numbers and email addresses and a few slides that were prepared by an independent research group.

The hacker group, calling itself CyberCaliphate, was already under FBI investigation for incursions into the Twitter feeds or websites of media outlets in New Mexico and Maryland, prompting officials to question whether the group has any real affiliation with the Islamic State militants.