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Islamic State hackers post phone numbers of heads of the CIA and FBI

Nov 8, 2015 10:45 pm By Robert Spencer

And hack 54,000 Twitter accounts. We will be seeing more of this.

hacked by the caliphate

“ISIS ‘cyber caliphate’ hacks 54,000 Twitter accounts and posts phone numbers of heads of the CIA and FBI in revenge for the drone attack that killed a British extremist,” by Ian Gallagher, The Mail On Sunday, November 7, 2015:

Jihadis have hacked tens of thousands of Twitter accounts in retaliation for the drone attack that killed a British Islamic State extremist.

A group called Cyber Caliphate, set up by Junaid Hussain from Birmingham, urged its followers to take control of the accounts to spread IS propaganda. Most of the victims appear to be based in Saudi Arabia, though some are feared to be British.

In what experts described as a worrying escalation of the global cyber war, details of more than 54,000 Twitter accounts, including passwords, were posted online last Sunday.

It raised the prospect of genuine account holders watching helplessly as IS rhetoric appears under their names.

One victim, a half-British engineer based in Saudi, said: ‘I am horrified at how they got hold of my details.’

The extremists also posted hacked personal details, including mobile phone numbers, of the heads of the CIA, the FBI and America’s National Security Agency.

Hussain led IS’s computer hacking division before he was killed by a US drone in a joint operation with the UK in August. His widow, mother-of-two Sally Jones from Kent – known as ‘Mrs Terror’ – is on a Government list of the most dangerous British recruiters for IS.

Since Hussain’s death, Cyber Caliphate, which briefly took control of a Pentagon-owned Twitter account in January, has kept a low online profile.

But having spent several months apparently harvesting sensitive data, it reappeared on Twitter at just after 9pm last Sunday. ‘We are back,’ it declared in an opening tweet.

Its Twitter page featured the hackers’ nicknames and sinister avatars and the words: ‘Islamic State Hackers’ in bold red letters. It went on to taunt the West, saying: ‘We need years to publish what we have’ and adding: ‘We will raise our flag in the heart of Europe.’

Then it tweeted a link to the database of stolen Twitter accounts, saying they included details of members of the Saudi royal family, although this could not be verified.

Shortly after 11pm – having thought to have been contacted by a security agency – Twitter suspended Cyber Caliphate’s account. It was not immediately clear how the hacked accounts were used. Victims contacted by The Mail on Sunday were unaware they had been hacked. ‘Yes, that’s my password,’ said one, a doctor. ‘It’s shocking and worrying how they got my details.’ The doctor said he had not been warned about the cyber attack by Twitter….

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Filed Under: Internet jihad, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Tagged With: Cyber Caliphate, Junaid Hussain


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  1. mortimer says

    Nov 8, 2015 at 11:08 pm

    Robert Spencer wrote: “We will be seeing more of this.”

    Indeed, we will because the dupe in the Whitehouse has brought JIHADISTS into the security level of the United States.

    Every practicing Muslim must be a jihadist.

    • Don McKellar says

      Nov 9, 2015 at 12:23 am

      “Every practicing Muslim must be a jihadist.”

      That is absolutely correct. Or they are not a moslem. It can be violent, it can be on the internet waging “cyber jihad”, it can be through contributions to “Islamic charities”, it can be done even by purposeful deception anywhere else. Islam is jihad, jihad is Islam. Almost certainly CAIR and all the rest give such instruction and aid whenever possible on how to do “your part” against the infidels.

  2. Angemon says

    Nov 8, 2015 at 11:16 pm

    But having spent several months apparently harvesting sensitive data,

    Or bargaining for a better price with the chinese/north-korean hackers.

  3. Jack HOLAN says

    Nov 8, 2015 at 11:36 pm

    When will #WakeUpAmerica that the US is in great peril with the likes of Jeh Johnson most concerned about Islamaphobe not Islamic terrorism. He or others killed the story about the ISIS base 8 miles from the US border with Mexico. The Cartels helping, maps for the inside of 2 our bases assistance from a high ranking Mexican Field officer all quashed after a week of print. Then we have Ambassador Rice, Senator Cummings (political hack and know nothing, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry Ben Rhodes and the unseen not signed in guest of the White House but definites meetings with Barack Hussein Obama the Muslim Brotherhood. They seek the conversion of all Americans to Islam and governed by Sharia.
    No @NAACP &FMI or DHS. Gov this is not a Rightwing Conspiracy not Islamophoebic it is the highest concern for people of the US because we who have been through this know what’s coming down the
    Road.

  4. somehistory says

    Nov 8, 2015 at 11:48 pm

    Cyber terror…no one is entirely safe, but the more sites where a person has accounts, the more likely that one will be a victim of cyber terror.

  5. Jay Boo says

    Nov 8, 2015 at 11:57 pm

    Jay Boo’s account at Jihad Watch has just been hacked.
    This is ISIS with new instructions to all Muslims.
    Good Morning Muslim World.
    It is time to wake up and burn your Qur’ans in the barbecue pit.
    We realize our mistake in following the example of a caravan raider.
    Renounce Islam.

    • More Ham Ed says

      Nov 9, 2015 at 10:04 am

      Which brings up the point I would rather JW make use of registered users rather than an open comment system where nearly anything can be typed in to the Name field, and our only recourse being “hey Robert, someone just copied my JW username” – he’s usually going to be too busy.

  6. duh_swami says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 4:04 am

    Twittr should have a warning label similar to those on cigarette packs…Warning…Use of this product can be dangerous to your health…Use at your own risk…

  7. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 5:42 am

    We hear almost daily about this hack, that big computer break ins, and grand thefts of personal data by unknown persons. But it seems like we never hear about arrests, prosecutions, trials, convictions and prison terms for the perpetrators.

    • quotha raven says

      Nov 10, 2015 at 12:21 am

      To APF – Puzzling, isn’t it? Cheers! qr

  8. TerryK says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 8:48 am

    As long as we elect pro-Islamic people, we are going to be at risk. It is the duty of Muslims to create a global Caliphate by all means. Exposing CIA and FBI personnel is just one way to achieve the goal.

  9. خَليفة says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 11:57 am

    Islamic jihadis harm or kill people out of “revenge”, these people seldom if ever had anything to do with the act which is claimed demanded revenge. The Islamic mind works this way, 1) I feel wronged, 2) my religion demands I take revenge, 3) this is my permission to harm or kill anyone I can and use “revenge” as an excuse

    How about the Kuffar extract a bit of “revenge” on those twisted Islamists – how about we
    #NukeMecca

    Revenge is something muslims understand, like the dogs they are beat them down with the ultimate bigger stick, prove their religion is false, #NukeMecca

    The Islamic response would be “your religion does not allow you to do that” and to that the kuffar can say we are secular, and #NukeMecca

  10. Sam says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 12:25 pm

    Why? I thought CIA and FBI work for ISIS under Obama.

  11. miriamrove says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 4:32 pm

    Hi! By now you all know I am not tech savvy. But how the hell can they hack the phone numbers of such a high profile persons? m

  12. Cthulhu says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 4:42 pm

    I have an idea for hackers, cracker and general internet users. Photoshop and publish everywhere you can pictures of those bastards from IS (Islamic Swines) with swine snouts and tails saying “oink, oink” 😉 Hack their sites and overflow the internet with those pictures.

  13. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Nov 9, 2015 at 9:42 pm

    So Robert, can we have their phone numbers, too please?

    I have certain questions I’d like to ask them concerning their knowledge of islam (and/or lack thereof)!

    But of course they weren’t hacked, per se – it’s obvious that muslim members of the FBI and CIA fully support ISILam, and simply released the internally-available data.

    😉

  14. Francis Merde says

    Nov 10, 2015 at 11:28 am

    Oh no! They got a hold of some twitter passwords! The horror! Whatever shall we do!

    *immediately makes new twitter account*

    They also posted some phone numbers! Heaven forbid!

    *checks*

    Alright this is slightly more impressive, as the numbers aren’t already posted online in an obvious place (like on the CIA website). It would’ve been pretty funny if a hacker claimed to have hacked something that exists in the public domain though.

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