A so-called “hacking division” of the ISIL Takfiri group has released names, home addresses and other sensitive details of hundreds of US military and embassy staff in an alleged “hit list.”
The Takfiri terrorist group claimed on Tuesday that its hackers have infiltrated computers belonging to the American military and accessed data such as photographs, phone numbers, addresses and even credit card details of some 1500 US Army, Navy and State Department staff.
The group has also called on its “brothers in America” to carry out lone wolf attacks against those mentioned on the lists.
The lists were released on a Twitter account that is affiliated with Abu Hussain al-Britani (Junaid Hussain), a British national who is suspected of leading a team of hackers that carries out cyber attacks for ISIL.
“They have us on their ‘hit list’, and we have them on ours too…,” he said in one of his Tweets.
Al-Britani, 21, is believed to be the third person on the Pentagon’s kill list of key ISIL figures, only preceded by Jihadi John and the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The Pentagon confirmed on Wednesday that it is investigating the matter but downplayed the claims made by the ISIL, saying that the data is retrieved from social media and other public sources.