It specialises in commercial refuse, plastic and paper recycling, security shredding, data destruction, archive storage and selling new packing.

Other military websites and social media accounts, including Centcom.mil, appeared unaffected, with no signs of defacement, traffic overload or data destruction.

Irish-based IT disposal and data destruction firm Wisetek has opened its new facility in Sacramento, California, creating 20 jobs in the US.

Data Destruction The Sony hack announced another kind of threat we haven't seen much in the U.S.: the data destruction threat.