From Newsweek comes this news: Hackers associated with ISIS, or Islamic state militants, have in their random hacking of websites tapped into a database in Arkansas — that of the Arkansas Library Association.

It has posted some 800 names and addresses and phone numbers of members on a privacy app, Telegram.

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The word has been circulated to library association members. The FBI thinks the hacking of data — which follows earlier hacks of random low-profile sits — doesn’t present a threat and the reaction in Arkansas seems mild.

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