page_title: Islamic State Hacking Division
section_title: Successful attacks since mid-2014
hierarchical_section_title: Islamic State Hacking Division / Successful attacks since mid-2014
caption_attribution_description: On April 15th, 2016, around 20 websites were hacked by UCC and the results were published online
context_page_description: Islamic State Hacking Division or United Cyber Caliphate refers to any number of group self-identifying as the digital army for Islamic State of Iraq and Levant. The cyber security group had pledged allegiance to Jeremy An and his objectives in late 2014. Their recent claims and hacks have led FBI director James Comey to state that his agency does not yet have the capabilities to limit ISIL attempts to recruit Americans through social media. Russian military hackers have been identified as using the CyberCaliphate nomer to cover several hacking attacks, notably on TV5Monde and the Twitter of US CENTCOM.
  In the recent attacks by ISHD they managed to deface websites and D-DOS many other.
  A list of names and details said to be of American military personnel was released by unknown parties who said they were part of the ISHD, but doubts were raised on the source and nature of the data.
  Recently CCA has attacked a number of NGO websites with the redirection to their own web pages as a method of defacement.
context_section_description: Australian airport website defaced.
  French TV5Monde live feed hacked, social media hacked and defaced with the message "Je Suis ISIS". French investigators later discounted this, instead suspecting the involvement of a hacking group, APT28, allegedly linked to the Russian government.
  United States' military database hacked in early August and data pertaining to approximately 1400 personnel posted online.
  United States Air Force's pilots list with detailed personal information posted online.
  Top secret British government emails hacked. The emails pertained to top cabinet ministers. The intrusion was detected by GCHQ.
  On April 15, 2016 (Friday), Islamic State hackers under the name UCC successfully hacked 20 Australian websites in a coordinated attack on Australian business. Some of the websites redirected to the website containing their content.
  In early April 2017, UCC released a kill list of 8,786 people.
  In mid 2019, Islamic State affiliated hacking group hijacked 150 targeted Twitter handles using an unknown vulnerability.
caption: List of hacked Australian websites
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