The past week has seen the rise of an online hackers group which goes by the name Legion. With the accounts of four well-known personalities and one political party – Indian National Congress (INC) and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, business tycoon Vijay Mallya, NDTV journalists Barkha Dutt and Ravish Kumar – hacked, the group has been sharing a fair amount of abusive tweets on Twitter-verse, along with personal account details.
While Gandhi’s and INC’s Twitter hack mostly consisted of offensive tweets with no information being shared, Mallya’s account wherein information about the cars he owned, passwords for his online accounts, his emails were ‘dumped’ on a particular website and the link put on his Twitter for everyone to access. The next victim was NDTV journalist Barkha Dutt, whose Twitter account also gave away personal IDs and passwords and email dumps. This was soon followed by another NDTV journalist Ravish Kumar’s Twitter being hacked.
The tweets by the group on these accounts have all been deleted and the accounts restored, Twitterati have responded to the hacking of the accounts in interesting ways – mostly by telling them why not to hack into their accounts, while others would like their accounts to be hacked in order to gain popularity. On the other hand, they’ve also taken to suggesting which other accounts the group should hack, Legion’s own reaction to the hacked emails and their reason for doing so – all with a generous dose of the tweeple brand of humour.
Sample these
#Legion bhai, hack my Twitter account and add a blue tick with 3675431 followers. Then give it back. I will put strong pwd.#HackerLegion
— Manish Sharma (@loginmanish) December 11, 2016
#legion I have very few followers please get me some followers, I am sure u guys can do this too, #salutetolegion
— vishal sharma (@sharmavishal291) December 11, 2016
JUST IN: #Legion hacks into PM Modi’s Twitter account, finds full form for LEGION
— The UnReal Times (@TheUnRealTimes) December 11, 2016
Number 1 reason for offline terror – Religion
Number 1 reason for online terror – Legion
— Sagar (@sagarcasm) December 10, 2016
Types of Hackers: Black Hat, White Hat & Grey Hat. NDTV should display these 3 colors on Screen as #Legion Group hacked Barkha Dutt & Ravish
— Anshul Saxena (@AskAnshul) December 10, 2016
JUST IN: #Legion posts first dump of Barkha Dutt’s emails – 90% of them are to and from Arun Jaitley above exclusives on NDTV
— The UnReal Times (@TheUnRealTimes) December 10, 2016
BREAKING:We Strongly Condemn This Act Of Hacking On Our Journalists. We’ll Take This Issue To UN: Nawaz Sharif
— Sir Ravindra Jadeja (@SirJadeja) December 10, 2016
Arnab Goswami, as he quit @TimesNow – “The game begins”.
* @twitter accounts getting #hacked *#Legion – “The game begins”.
Ahem.— Tiwari Ji (@notty_pundit) December 11, 2016
Ravish ??? Kumar to Burkha – ??? ??? ?? ?? #Legion
— Madhuchhanda Bose (@madhuchhanda11) December 11, 2016
Mere PASS-WORD nahi hai teri tareef krne ke liye ?? #Legion
— S h u s h a n T (@whoshushant) December 11, 2016
Thank you Legion ji for not hacking my account by mistake… #BarkhaHacked pic.twitter.com/gvpAiX6k8l
— The Viral Fever (@TheViralFever) December 10, 2016
@sh_atyagi @Vid_WW @LalitKModi #Legion is following #GOT startegy.
People keep guessing who will be next and they are always wrong. pic.twitter.com/j5hyk3vQvw— Chacha_Chaudhary (@Chcha_Chaudhary) December 11, 2016
Legion’s reaction after hacking and reading Ashutosh’s emails in English pic.twitter.com/DnESt9zfPn
— The-Lying-Lama (@KyaUkhaadLega) December 10, 2016
legion group will stop hacking once they get their tcs joining letter
— ?? (@ElCrankoPunko) December 10, 2016
“Hey Legion, please hack us, thodi to popularity mile !” pic.twitter.com/mEkwgfSiNe
— The-Lying-Lama (@KyaUkhaadLega) December 10, 2016
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