Websites of small businesses hacked to display ISIS logo


CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: After cyberattacks, speculation swirls about whether operatives from terrorist organization were actually behind the hacks.

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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: After cyberattacks, speculation swirls about whether operatives from terrorist organization were actually behind the hacks.

Other organizations were similarly hacked: Southwest Montana Community Federal Union, Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, owned by NASCAR star Tony Stewart, a church in Canada and a Goodwill center in St. Louis, Moerlein Lager House and Montgomery Inn in Cleveland, The historic Montauk Manor, a condominium complex on New York’s Long Island,  Sequoia Park Zoo in Eureka, California,  Backbar, a bar in Somerville, Massachusetts,  Third Street Brewhouse in St. Cloud, Minnesota and North Douglas Pentecostal Church in Saanich, British Columbia,” according to published reports.

One analyst has likened these hacks to those made of the Twitter account for US Central Command back in January and to a cartoon by the popular webcomic xkcd, which summed up the Chicken Little-style response to an event that was found to be more window dressing than broken windows.

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