Originally Posted by Zyber

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/

Notice the extra comma after synchronizes?

This gives you the MD5 hash ac244cda9fa3ab16a2a51dc4f16b1547.

If you remove the extra comma you will get



Correct MD5 hash: 9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a

Voila. Mystery solved.