Military members on 'ISIS kill list' notified

Troops who were named on a "kill list" posted online over the weekend have been notified by their military units, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.

A group that sympathizes with the Islamic State and calls itself the Islamic State Hacking Division posted photographs, home addresses, and more personal information on 100 pilots, sailors, commanders, and airmen involved in U.S.-led airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, USA Today reports. Pentagon spokesman Col. Steven Warren said that some of the people listed are no longer part of the military, and their information did not come from a data breach, but was all publicly available, usually on social media and military websites.

The Islamic State Hacking Division claimed that it hacked military servers to get the names and personal details, and "decided to leak 100 addresses so that our brothers residing in America can deal with you."

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