This past Friday The Syrian Electronic Army tweeted images as proof they’ve accessed hundreds of Pentagon documents – penetrating the network of the United States Central Command and other systems.
The image does suggest that the SEA has gained access to a military directory called “AKO Home”, which contains a number of folders with names relating to the US Air Force specifics command units under that branch.
“AKO,” or “Army Knowledge Online,” is the name of a web-based enterprise information system used by the Pentagon to let military personnel access files from any internet-connected computer.
“It’s a total aggregation of all the information the Army has, all the documents, manuals and files,” states Ryan Samuel, the director of public relations at a company that helped develop AKO.
The SEA claims to be attacking US military sites as a response to cyberattacks upon the Syrian government by the US.
A group of computer hackers who are loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad say they’ve accessed hundreds of documents after allegedly penetrating the network of the United States Central Command and other systems.The Syrian Electronic Army hacktivist group said from their Twitter account on Friday that they were engaged in an operation targeting CENTCOM due to US President Barack Obama’s “decision to attack Syria with electronic warfare.”
Soon after the group claimed to have “already successfully penetrated many central repositories,” and tweeted a screenshot of what is purported to show that hackers have indeed somehow wound up inside of a military computer system of some sorts.
The image suggests that someone from the SEA may have in fact gained access to a military directory called “AKO Home” that contains a number of folders with names relating to the US Air Force specifics command units under that branch.
“In the coming days we will update you with specific details and hundreds of documents that the #SEA has obtained,” the group tweeted.
“AKO,” or “Army Knowledge Online,” is the name of a web-based enterprise information system used by the Pentagon to let military personnel access files from any internet-connected computer, and was called “the world’s largest intranet” in a 2001 Wired article.
“It’s a total aggregation of all the information the Army has, all the documents, manuals and files,” Ryan Samuel, the director of public relations at a company that helped develop the AKO, told Wired’s Louise Knapp for that article.
At the time, Louise said the AKO had room for around 70 terabytes of storage for those files, though that number has almost certainly grown exponentially over the last 13 years.
The AKO website was slow to respond following the hackers’ claim, which could be the result of a surge in visitors prompted by the SEA’s tweets, an attempted denial-of-service attack to momentarily cripple the military’s servers or, also likely, a total coincidence.
Requests for comment made by RT to the Army’s press office were not immediately returned Friday afternoon.
The SEA has engaged in a number of operations in recent months against the websites of western media outlets, and is perhaps best known for claiming to have compromised the Twitter account of the Associated Press last year. Once that account was commandeered, the SEA erroneously reported that an explosion had occurred at the White House.
all under the wimp from kenya.s watch
Obuma has compromised so many things in our country and lies about every thing. I feel that’s why Lerner pled the 5th because she’s covering for obuma.
THAT’S NOT SUPRISING SEEING OBAMA HAS STATEGICALLY PLACED MUSLIMS IN HIS ADMINISTRATION TO APEASE HIS MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD FRIENDS.
As a former active duty and reserve soldier, AKO is the Facebook of the army. This means nothing. Any mans, pams, or unit info they got off that site, they could have just as easily googled.
Bull probably got it from all the Muslims we have working in the Pentagon WTF
Why do that…All they have to do is ask their Muslim traitor Terrorist Brother…Obama for the info…
Fire Kerry, Biden, Holder, Obama, and every one of Obama’s Appointees. No Incumbents. Obama and Biden love Gun Control and War more than Adolf Hitler did and hate each one of your Human Rights and Freedoms. Our Media and Obama’s Administration are completely silent about the murder of Christians in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East and they are completely silent about the Nuclear Melt down in Japan poisoning our oceans and our air. Elections are coming for each of our Senators and Representatives who have not fired Obama and Repealed Obamacare. Vote every one of them out. Each of them is just as guilty as Obama and Biden for each civilian death caused by our stupid War on Terror in Africa and the Middle East. Vote them out.
the Nazi’s at the NSA spy on us. wonder how the Nazi’s like being spied on!
There is no excuse for this. Where are our so called professionals??
Death to Islam