Group That Hacked CENTCOM Eyes Military Spouses

Apparent pro-ISIS hacktivists co-opted the Twitter account of a military family advocacy group and posted threats against around a half dozen members.

The incident comes about a month after group member Liz Snell told CNN she wouldn't allow the Islamic extremists’ attack against the CENTCOM Twitter account to deter her fight to help military spouses in distress.

The group's Twitter page was indefinitely shut down at Snell's direction.

On the Twitter account of Military Spouses of Strength, the hacktivists, claiming to be part of the CyberCaliphate movement, posted a threatening letter and opened each threat with the name of a member of the group.

"You think you're safe but IS is already here. #CyberCaliphate got into your PC and smartphone," the threat said.

The threats targeted group members who were quoted in a CNN article in January entitled "After ISIS Twitter threat, military families rethink online lives."

"It looks like to me that everyone who was threatened was connected to the CNN article," Snell said.

Amy Bushatz, another member who was threatened, said she also received a suspicious friend request on her personal Facebook page that originated from a group apparently connected to ISIS.

The friend request came from a person who identified himself as "Gaspar CyberCaliphate Sadz." The friend request featured a person's head wrapped in a black-and-white checkered head scarf.

When Bushatz went to look at that person's Facebook page again, "it was gone," she said. "It had been deleted."

Another military spouse told The Hill website that her Twitter account was hacked by someone claiming to be part of ISIS.

The threat stated: "While your president and your husband are killing our brothers in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan we're coming for you," according to The Hill.

"You think you're safe but the IS is already here, CyberCaliphate got into your PC and smartphone," the threat continued. "We know everything about you, your husband and your children and we're much closer than you can even imagine. You'll see no mercy infidel!"