Legion Hacktivist Group

Legion was a hacktivist group that has attacked some rich and powerful people in India by hacking their twitter handlers. The group claims to have access to many email servers in India and has the encryption keys used by Indian banks over the Internet.[1][2]

History

Legion came in news when it launched its series of attacks starting with Rahul Gandhi, the member of Indian National Congress.[3]

Reports say that not only Rahul's twitter handler was hacked but his mail server was also hacked. The very next day, INC's twitter handler was also hacked and tweeted irrelevant content. The group then hacked twitter handlers of Vijay Mallya, Barkha Dutt and Ravish Kumar.[4]

gollark: We need to make the volume/power buttons also do things; cryptic mysterious things.
gollark: Vim for mobile. Genius!
gollark: ?star show 477724848962142228
gollark: AND they use Windows!
gollark: Simple: Linux.

References
  1. Bearak, Max (12 December 2016). "The man hacking India's rich and powerful talks motives, music, drugs and next targets". Washington Post.
  2. Sarkhel, Aritra; Alawadhi, Neha (13 December 2016). "Hacker group Legion calls Indian banking system deeply flawed". The Economic Times.
  3. "Rahul Gandhi's official Twitter handle hacked, posts profane content". The Indian Express. 30 November 2016.
  4. "Journalists Barkha Dutt, Ravish Kumar's Twitter accounts hacked by Legion". Firstpost. 11 December 2016.


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