A group of pro-Islamic State hackers calling itself the “CyberCaliphate” took control of the Twitter feeds of two U.S. news outlets, as well as the website of a television news outlet based in Maryland.
The group posted a banner on the Twitter sites with the message “I love isis” and the picture of a face covered by a kaffiyeh, CBS News reported.
Meanwhile, WBOC-TV, out of Salisbury, Maryland, reported that its website and its Twitter feed were hacked.
“WBOC has since taken back control of WBOC.com and removed the pro-ISIS propaganda, but the WBOC Twitter page remains compromised,” the news station said in a statement to readers. “WBOC has reached out to Twitter to resolve the issue. Law enforcement agencies have also been contacted to investigate the matter.”
The Albuquerque Journal newspaper confirmed that its Twitter account was hacked.
The news comes just a weeks after theaters in America shuttered plans to show the movie “The Interview,” after a hacking issue with Sony Pictures that the FBI said was rooted in North Korea.
• Cheryl K. Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.
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