Social media accounts managed by the United States Central Command have been hacked by a group of IS sympathisers.
CENTCOM manages key theatre-level operations within the US.
The group has hacked into the Youtube and Twitter accounts are are releasing what seems to be confidential documents to the public online.
A post on Twitter the group tweeted after they gained control of the account.
The group also tweeted this warning to American soldiers.
The Central Command has orchestrated US-led air-strikes against the Islamic State Iraq and Syria ad is beginning to train up Iraqi troops to be able to respond to the threat in the region.
In an official statement Central Command said that their Twitter account has been "compromised" and that it is "taking appropriate measures to address the matter." The statement did not elaborate on how they managed to hack into the systems or what the 'appropriate measures' are but the Twitter account was disabled by around 1:10pm.
The Press secretary from the White House, John Earnest has said that the Obama administration is "examining and investigating the extent of the incident."
Two IS propaganda videos have been posted on the Youtube channel before that too was disabled.
As of 2pm the CENTCOM Facebook page still appeared to be operated by Central Command.
As of 19:22pm GMT the story is still developing...
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