A group of hackers who claims to be working for the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organisation has released its latest "kill" list comprising of 8,318 people worldwide together with their names, residential addresses and even email addresses.
The list coming from the United Cyber Caliphate is one of the longest target lists ISIS-affiliated groups have distributed, according to the Vocativ online news site.
The report says Vocativ uncovered the information on the messaging app Telegram that was written in both English and Arabic.
Speaking to its supporters, the United Cyber Caliphate called on them to "follow" those listed and "kill them strongly to take revenge for Muslims."
Vocativ says most of the names and their accompanying addresses appear to belong to people in the United States, Australia, and Canada.
Included in the hit list were the names of 7,848 people identified as being in the U.S. Of this people, 1,445 were listed as having addresses in California, 643 in Florida, 341 in Washington, 333 in Texas, 331 in Illinois, and 290 in New York, according to Vocativ. Some of the names were those of police officers from the state of Minnesota. U.S. State Department employees and ordinary Americans, according to Vocativ.
The ISIS hit list also includes 312 names and addresses of people residing in Canada. Sixty-nine of the names belonged to people living in Australia. Another 39 are affiliated with the U.K. while the rest comprise of people with addresses in Belgium, Brazil, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, New Zealand, South Korea, Sweden and Trinidad and Tobago.
In a posting on its website, the United Cyber Caliphate urges ISIS loyalists to attack everyone on its "kill list."
Counterterrorism officials have seen such lists but are not sure whether they are only meant to instil fear or truly threaten those listed, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The United Cyber Caliphate also published on its Telegram channel on Monday satellite images showing U.S. air bases. However, the same images can be found on Google Earth.
