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there, the washington post caught up...

The Centcom ‘hack’ that wasn’t
By Brian Fung and Andrea Peterson January 12 at 2:17 PM

(Reuters/Kacper Pempel/Files)

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.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/01/12/the-centcom-hack-that-wasnt/