It all started with Rahul Gandhi. They hacked his Twitter account, posted a series of abusive tweets, threatened to expose Indian National Congress and then even hacked the official INC account.
Next, in radar under the hacker group Legion was Vijay Mallya. Giving out his personal details like his whereabouts in London, the group vowed to bring him to justice.
Just when Twitteratis were having a field day, the same hacking group hijacked the twitter account of Barkha Dutt, threatening to expose all her private emails.
While, all the abusive tweets and trolls might be funny, hacking is a serious issue even if the group proclaims to be hacking for the greater good.
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Who are the Legion? Why are they Hacking Twitter Accounts of Famous People?
The term legion signifies that there are many people involved. It is a group that is functioning together. Interestingly, this particular group is operating from five countries at the moment – The United States, Sweden, Canada, Thailand and Romania according to the Delhi cyber crime cell.
They have given out their email id – legion_group@sigaint.org and want people to join them to support this whole activity which they term as ‘Cause’ to expose the Corrupt.
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The Objective of the Group
When Max Bearak of Washington Post contacted one of the members first through the above email and then through an encrypted messenger, the member going by the name Legion Crew (LC) mentioned how they wish to bring everything ‘classified’ into public domain. He also mentioned there is no political agenda behind it as speculated by people.
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Interesting Facts About Legion – The Hacker Group
- They are a group of Computer geeks having passion for electronic music.
- They love doing drugs.
- The hacker who interacted with the Washington Post journalists mentioned how passionate he is about progressive music than hacking.
- Aphex Twin, Listing Brian Eno and Global Communication are the artists that influence him.
- He also revealed that the group has access to servers like Apollo Hospital – India’s biggest private hospital chain.
- Before signing off, the hacker of the Legion Group mentioned he is bored of staying in New Delhi – India’s capital and would love to go to Russia to do drugs.
The organization Sigaint (whose email id the hackers are using) is a TOR (The Onion Router) enabled service that offers privacy to activists and journalists who wish to combat the dragnet surveillance that prevails on the Internet. It is a secure darknet email provider that provides anonymity on the Internet.
A volunteer network, it ot only protects a user’s location and how they use the internet, but also hides him from online traffic analysis and surveillance.
Tor encrypts IP addresses as well as data, and continuously changes them on a random basis on a virtual circuit, which makes it alost impossibleto track the users.
According to Sigait’s FAQ, passwords cannot be recovered. All the users receive 2 addresses per inbox – one at sigaint.org for receiving clearnet emails, and the other at its .onion address only for receiving emails from other Tor-enabled email services.
While, free accounts have 50 MB of storage space, upgraded accounts have access to larger size limits, POP3, SMTP, IMAP and full disk encryption.
The whole activity remids us of the The Legion of Doom (LOD), the famous hacker group that started in the mid 80s and remained active till the early 2000. It is interesting how these hackers are hacking only the rich and famous accounts, vouching to expose them, sharing confidential details and signing as Legion.
Now the moot question who are the members of this newly found hackers group and how far they are aimming to go? Will they go the Julian Assange way of WikiLeaks?
