Associated Press: Fancy Bear hackers sent threatening letters to American military wives

, were behind the threats that the wives of five American military personnel received in 2015 Fancy Bear hackers, who are linked to Russia , reports the Associated Press .

According to the agency, in February 2015, five women received threatening messages from CyberCaliphate hackers who called themselves associated with Islamic State militants.

“We know everything about you, about your husband and about your children,” the agency quotes a message sent to Facebook to the military wife, Angela Ricketts. The hackers claimed to have gained access to the woman's computer and phone: "We're a lot closer than you can even imagine."

The Associated Press reports that it obtained the data from company Secureworks cybersecurity . They prove that when military wives received threats from CyberCaliphate, hackers Fancy Bear tried to break into their email accounts.

In June 2017, Pentagon experts claimed that CyberCaliphate, which was behind the attack on the French television station TV5 Monde , is linked to "Russian military hackers."

group The Fancy Bear was associated with attacks on military personnel from the United States, Ukraine, Turkey, Sweden, Latvia, Montenegro, politicians and officials from Ukraine, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Austria, as well as NATO and UN employees. In addition, they are considered involved in hacking the email of former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the accounts of Ukrainian politicians and the WADA system.