The hacker who broke into Taylor Swift's social media accounts now seems to be targeting her celebrity friends—or her celebrity fans, anyway. British pop singer Lily Allen Instagrammed a text message Thursday night from someone threatening to "hack u and kidnap u then rape ur gaping body," with the caption "Cool iMessage from some kid that got my number from hacking Taylor Swift's Twitter."

What do CENTCOM, Taylor Swift, and Newsweek all have in common? The inability to keep people out of their Twitter accounts: hackers claiming to be ISIS sympathizers of the "Cyber Caliphate" just briefly hijacked another social media star.

Despite a lack of compelling evidence, the world has mostly assumed that villainous North Koreans broke into Sony last year, causing one of the biggest digital meltdowns of all time. But many experts remain skeptical, including one veteran hacker who says he's positive the Russians did it.

For a few minutes this week, Taylor Swift's official Twitter and Instagram accounts were being run by someone who is not Taylor Swift. She's back in control of her social media—but the hacker tells me he obtained private DMs—and nude photographs—and is attempting to sell them to TMZ.

Way back in 2011, things were going very well for Barrett Brown, a hacker groupie-cum-journalist who'd made some friends in Anonymous, the once-fearsome online collective. Today, he was sentenced to 63 months in prison after aiding them in their reign of crimes and bullshit theatrics.

If you just saw some tweets about the United States and China engaged in naval combat and the pope declaring a third world war, don't be alarmed: we're pretty sure it's just someone fucking with a bad newspaper, a la CENTCOM.

An 18-year-old Brit is in police custody, accused of spoiling Christmas for eager gamers around the world by knocking the Xbox Live and PSN networks offline. Cyber justice is nigh.

Three years ago, Junaid Hussain was convicted of breaking into Tony Blair's online contact list and spreading it across the net—now, Reuters reports he's the top suspect behind the Islamic State fanboy "Cyber Caliphate" attacks.

The official Twitter and YouTube accounts of CENTCOM—the Pentagon branch that oversees American military power in the Middle East—is now an unofficial propaganda machine of the ISIS "Cyber Caliphate."