U.S. military Twitter, YouTube accounts apparently hacked by ISIS

Supporters of the extremist group known as ISIS or the Islamic State apparently took over the Twitter and YouTube accounts on Monday of the U.S. Central Command, a top military security unit.

Phone numbers of top military officers and what the hackers said were classified documents were posted on Centcom’s Twitter feed, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The Twitter feed for Centcom, which is responsible for U.S. security interests in 20 nations stretching through the Arabian Gulf region into Central Asia, has since been suspended.

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