The journalists in the article tried to hash the wrong mission statement.
They used the mission statement found on the official source. Since the source is a military intelligence agency, the military hackers changed their mission statement to confuse people, and maybe for a good laugh. Or for the sake of creating some publicity
http://www.stratcom.mil/factsheets/cc/
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USCYBERCOM plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes, and conducts activities to: direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense information networks and; prepare to, and when directed, conduct full-spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to enable actions in all domains, ensure US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to our adversaries.
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Notice the extra comma after synchronizes?
This gives you the MD5 hash ac244cda9fa3ab16a2a51dc4f16b1547.
If you remove the extra comma you will get
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USCYBERCOM plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes and conducts activities to: direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense information networks and; prepare to, and when directed, conduct full-spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to enable actions in all domains, ensure US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to our adversaries.
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Correct MD5 hash: 9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a
Voila. Mystery solved.
