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This may be too. Ads (learn more about our advertising policies here) It is believed intelligence services have broken into the computers of journalists and activists before, but this is the most targeted attack on journalists of the political orders of the Islamic State, with the information stolen supposedly being used to disseminate propaganda and to run online campaigns attacking efforts to liberate Mosul. Journalists targeted include reporter Abdullah al-Dulaimi and Sirwan Badreddine, an Iraqi Kurdish journalist based in Kirkuk. On 1 November both men travelled to Iraq and Syria to report from Mosul, their posts initially published by the press gallery as well as other Kurdish news websites. Later, in turn, by the armed group ISIS claimed responsibility for the hack. Two separate hacker groups responded by accusing unknown parties. Although there is no proof of the link, the attack, together with the recent move by the hacker groups to change the subject from the caliphate and more conventional violence, suggests that...