How ISIS Finally Hacked the Arkansas Library Association (softpedia.com)

An anonymous reader shares this story from earlier in the week: "ISIS hacking crews aren't the most talented hackers you'll find," reports Softpedia, noting that the terrorist group had finally succeeded in leaking the addresses and phone numbers of of over 800 employees of Arkansas high school and college libraries. "The Arkansas State Police is not working on the case," reports Newsweek, "and is leaving the follow-up to the Arkansas Library Association." In addition, "It appears that the FBI does not believe the threat from ISIS's cyber-hacks and lone-wolf directives is serious enough to occupy its resources on each individual." The ISIS hacking crew's previous targets have included a church's website in Michigan, a Japanese dance instructor, and an SEO optimization site which they'd apparently mistaken for Google.
One small-town library director told Newsweek that he personally found their library hack "vaguely amusing".

Comments

Clearly

[rmdingler]

Do you know why we can report with five 9's certainty the toothbrush was invented in Arkansas?

Anywhere else, it'd would've been called the teethbrush.

Re:The big question.

[Bodhammer]

ALA -> ALLAH
Just saying, you know how confusing the interwebs can be. It's a natural mistake...

Re:Finally

[Applehu Akbar]

First they had to finish attacking the American Dental Association.

That RPG is going to leave quite a cavity.

The GLA

[lucm]

When I see the low-quality gifs those hackers use when they deface the websites of random dance studios and libraries, it reminds me of the game C&C Generals, where the Americans and Chinese have tanks and fighter jets while the GLA (islamic warriors) have pick-up trucks and suicide vests.

With all the lone wolves and oil money they have access to, why can't they be bothered to make better images? Nobody's asking them to use Bootstrap and make responsive death threats, but they could at least spend a few minutes with the eraser in MS-Paint to improve the edges of their poorly-cropped cliparts.

It's already annoying when your website is pwned because the Wordpress setup of your $3/month webhost hasn't been patched for years, it just adds insult to the injury when the hackers replace your content with something that looks like it was design in HoTMetaL Pro and uploaded via WS_FTP to a free AngelFire account in 1996.

Re:Shows how weak they really are

[kelarius]

Give one good reason why the world should not ""strike back".

Islamic State has declared and is enacting war on the world.

Because the world does not have the willpower to move in and control the situation on the ground for the next couple of decades. If we want to actually win we have to convince the people that actually live there to keep these assholes in line. If we go in and blow everything up all it's going to do is recruit the next generation of jihadist assclowns.