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The Canadian Forces are warning military cadet organizations about cyber attacks after Islamic State sympathizers hacked into at least one webpage and altered the site with graphic images of dead women and children.

Lt.-Col. Gino Chretien, chief of staff for the Canadian military’s national cadets support group, issued a warning Wednesday about the cyber attacks, according to documents obtained by the Citizen.

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At least one army cadet website in British Columbia was hacked, with cadet information replaced by a message “To Royal Canadian Army: Stop The War Against Childs (sic) And Women in Syria & Iraq.”

“The fighters of canadian army (sic) kill our brothers and sisters in Syria and Iraq ,” it added.

The message calls on Muslims to go to “save brothers in Syria & Iraq.”

Photos showing dead women and children, imagery believed to be from the war in Syria, were inserted on the site.

The websites in question are run by cadet volunteers and are not official government of Canada sites. But that hasn’t stopped them from being targeted.