U.S Army's public website is hacked by group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army

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• U.S Army's website hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army | Daily Mail Online
  
• US Army temporarily took down Army.mil after hackers posted messages on the public website
• One message read, 'Your commanders admit they are training the people they have sent you to die fighting'
• Officials said no private information was breached during the attack
• Army.mil provides general information about the Army to the public

By Kelly Mclaughlin For Dailymail.com

Published: 20:30 GMT, 8 June 2015 | Updated: 06:42 GMT, 9 June 2015

The US Army temporarily took down its website after a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army hacked into the site and posted messages, officials said on Monday.

The Army said in a statement that hackers compromised an element of the army.mil service provider's content.

'After this came to our attention, the Army took appropriate preventive measures to ensure there was no breach of Army data by taking down the website temporarily,' said Army Brigadier General Malcolm Frost, the chief of Army public affairs.

A group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army claimed responsibility for the hack and said it left messages on theU.S. Army website, including one saying: 'Your commanders admitthey are training the people they have sent you to diefighting.'

Unlike the hack into the Office of Personnel Management, in which security clearance and background check records were compromised, officials said no classified information has been released.

No private personal data of and Army personnel, military or civilian, has been released to the public after the hack, officials told NBC.

Army.mil provides general information about the Army to the public and distributes press releases and Army-generated news stories.

Just last week, three decades of information was breached from the Office of Personnel Management.

Records of up to 4million current and former federal employees may have been compromised in the hacking, which officials have suspected was done by the Chinese.

As of Monday evening, the Army.mil website was still down.