'Cyber jihadists' hack Newsweek, military spouses

Cyber Caliphate hacks Newsweek and targets the First Family

(Image credit: Twitter.com/Andrew deGrandpre)

published 10 February 2015

Pro-ISIS hackers who claim to be part of a "Cyber Caliphate" this morning took control of Newsweek's Twitter account, sending threatening messages to the magazine's 2.51 million Twitter followers. "While the U.S. and its satellites kill our brothers in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan we broke into your networks and personal devices and know everything about you," one message read.

The wife of a U.S. Marine, who uses her Twitter account to promote her nonprofit advocacy organization for military spouses, appeared to have been hacked by the same group, The Hill reports. "We know everything about you, your husband and your children," one message read, "and we're much closer than you can even imagine. You'll see no mercy infidel!"