ISIS fanciers are reported to have leaked e-mail addresses and passwords in plain text from 1.500 American military and CIA staff.
Leakage includes full names, email addresses, encrypted passwords, postcodes, workspaces, and phone numbers.
Η team "Islamic State Hacking Divison” of ISIS claimed responsibility for the alleged leak from Twitter, and their account was deleted soon after.
The files include details of alleged State Department employees, and personnel from the US Navy, Army, Air Force and NASA. There is also a mixture of staff members of an American embassy, from Ministry of Energy, a few US Postal Service employees, patent office personnel, and many others.
But something is wrong on ISIS leaked list. There are many listings for people with non-US addresses - such as an Israeli lawyer (court.gov.il), someone from a college in Mississippi (millsaps.edu), someone from the Australian National Audit Office (anao. gov.au), and an employee from the UK Council (stockport.gov.uk).
It looks like someone has collected "gov" or "mil" email addresses from all over the internet.
And the leaked passwords seem to be hilariously weak – like “david8”. That is, codes that no one would ever expect a cybernetic to accept service.
We randomly selected and named the number of people on the list. In some cases, they worked but no one got, while in others the numbers were disconnected.
So it is not clear where the information comes from. They could even have been acquired by phishing attacks on private social accounts.
"As you continue your attacks on the Islamic State with bombings against Muslims, you should know that we know and are in your e-mails and your computer systems. We track and record your every move, we have your names and addresses, we are in your email and the social networking accounts you use. ”
A representative of the Pentagon told the Register that they knew about the alleged leak.
"We can not confirm its credibility at this time. The safety of the members of our service is always our primary concern ", he added.