ICYMI: Manchester Man on ISIS-Affiliated Group's Online Target List

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on March 25. We’re republishing it here in case you missed it:

A shadowy online group has urged “lone wolf” terrorists to kill U.S. soldiers on a list of names and addresses it released — and which includes one solder from Manchester, according to Fox CT news.

Calling itself the ”Islamic State Hacking Division” the group provided names and addresses of about 100 U.S. soldiers, and in some cases pictures and other information, much or all of which may have been posted online by the soldiers to Facebook or other Web pages, the report said.

Manchester police, according to the report, were notified last week about the case by the Defense Department, and state and local police checked the Manchester address given on the list — but the man doesn’t live there. A police spokesman could not confirm whether or not patrols in that neighborhood had been beefed up, but said police don’t believe there’s a danger.

There’s no evidence of an imminent threat of attack, according to reports by various news organizations citing Pentagon officials, but soldiers are being asked to remove addresses and similar information from social media or other online websites.

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