ISIS claims to release another US military “hit list”

Mr Keenan was not asked to clarify why the Australians on the list had not been contacted by authorities, but did imply authorities felt there was no risk to the safety of those hacked.

THE chair of federal parliament’s intelligence and security committee says the release of an Islamic State hit-list that includes Australian names shows coalition forces must take the fight to the terror group in Syria.

It is unclear whether Islamic State Hacking Division is connected to the group’s online division known as the “Cybercaliphate”.

Another tweeted: “This information is very useful for lone wolves to act and kill”.

Details including departments, area codes, emails and phone numbers were posted on Twitter account for several hours before being removed, according to a report in the Daily Mail. “We don’t really have much because most of the email address appear to be really old and passwords listed in the tweet don’t match up with our password strength requirements”.

Some of the victims were unaware of the attack including the Victoria MP and ADF employees.

Other US officials work with the Environmental Protection Agency or are military personnel, from the Army and the air force.

Previously it released what it claimed to be personal data of US military personnel, including names, photos and ranks. Cyber war got em shook!’

“We have not yet been able to authenticate the source”, she said.

Stewart said hacks typically occur through one of two ways: either low-level employees have done something outside of policy, like using social media improperly, clicking on a link in a phishing email, or downloading something they should not have; or the institution has not routinely or uniformly kept patches up-to-date and has not been investigating for signs of breaches. “Because you’re not just anxious about terrorism, you’re anxious about identity theft, people finding things out about you you don’t want them to know, so there are concerns on a number of fronts”, Gorczyk told Military Times.

The Twitter account of British ISIS hacker Abu Hussain al-Britani (Junaid Hussain), believed to be behind ISIS hackers” Division who released the new lists, wrote: “They have us on their “hit list’, and we have them on ours too…” Officials from America’s partner states also made the list, including details of British and Australian officials.