Military members on 'ISIS kill list' notified

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published 24 March 2015

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.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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