After Legion’s 4 Big Hacks, ‘Big Fish’ From Sansad Next on Radar

The hacker group also claimed that it did not release data on late CM Jayalalithaa as it would’ve caused “chaos”.

Sansad.nic.in is Legion’s next target. (Photo: iStock) 

After having hacked the Twitter accounts of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, embattled liqour baron Vijay Mallya and journalists Ravish Kumar and Barkha Dutt, hacker group Legion has a new target in sight.

The group, which calls itself “anarchists”, “PR groupies” and “attention seekers”, claim to be on a mission to expose people who seem “potentially interesting” to them.

“Next is a dump of sansad.nic.in emails. Which is - quite big. It includes a lot of _BIG FISH_” (sic), a member of Legion told Factor Daily in an encrypted chat interview. The Indian government website contains email IDs of all its central and state employees.

When asked about the “collateral damage” that the revelations may cause, the Legion group member said: “It’s their problem for using an insecure mail service.”

Also read: Bigger Things Yet to Come, Says Hacker Who Targeted Rahul, Mallya

Does Legion Have Info on Jayalalithaa?

In a recent interview with Washington Post, Legion claimed that their actions were not politically motivated. The group claimed that they were not even interested in “political data” until a few weeks ago.

The group claimed that it had “several terabytes” of raw data which includes information about influential Indian public figures. Legion claimed to have data on the late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.

The group said they did not release the information owing to doubts about its credibility and added that the information might cause “chaos”.

When we scanned through the data that we intercepted from various servers in South India, including AIADMK CDR stuff and other valuable information, we found a lot of contradicting information.

Legion member

“Nothing Is Secure On the Internet”

The sheer number of people switching to digital transactions, in the wake of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s demonetisation announcement, is testament to the fact that many consider online banking to be a secure medium.

Digital transactions are not as reliable and secure as users think, warns the Legion member. It is easy to generate “fraudulent messages,” the member said.

We have confidential data pertaining to national payment hub servers, and even have the encryption keys/certificates used by some banks in India.

Legion member

The member also quashed claims that the online accounts of the BJP and Prime Minister Modi are impenetrable. “Nothing is secure” on the internet, the member said. “Anything can be made can be broken” (sic).

(With inputs from Factor Daily)