Local audiences were surprised to see militant, Pro-ISIS tweets and images on the Twitter feeds of the Albuquerque Journal and CBS and Fox affiliates in Delmarva, Maryland, and a station in Tennessee earlier this week, sending those news organizations scrambling to regain control of their social media accounts and leaving some scratching their heads as to why a group sympathetic to ISIS would target local media markets.

Hackers, who call themselves CyberCaliphate, posted familiar images of a man with his face shrouded in a scarf as well as messages such as “With Allah’s permission we began with New-Mexico and we are in Tennessee now. We hacked FBI databases. #CyberCaliphate,” and pledged “INFIDELS, NEW YEAR WILL MAKE YOU SUFFER.”

Indeed it appeared that the group had accessed government sites since a link on the Twitter feed for the Tennessee station led to a dump of what Stewart County, Tenn. Mayor Rick Joiner told AOL News were legitimate documents from government servers there. In addition, a link to a document dump on Pastebin on the Albuquerque Journal’s Twitter account revealed personal data and alleged sealed criminal records of people residing in New Mexico, the AOL report said.

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