After Rahul & Mallya, 'Legion' Turns To Journos. Hacks Barkha Dutt & Ravish Kumar's Twitter Accounts, Lalit Modi Is Next
The hacker group named Legion has struck again. This time the targets were TV journalists Barkha Dutt And Ravish Kumar. They also hinted that former IPL Commissioner Lalit K Modi is the next target. The twin strikes came just a day after business tycoon Vijay Mallya s twitter account was hacked.
The hacker group, named 'Legion', has struck again. This time the targets were TV journalists Barkha Dutt And Ravish Kumar.
¡°We use twitter as a means to reach the public. We don¡¯t just hack twitter accounts. Go through the data and find out,¡± the hackers posted from Kumar's account.
They also hinted that former IPL Commissioner Lalit K Modi is the next target ¡°Coming up next -@LalitKModi leaks. Stay tuned.¡±
Earlier, in the day the same group had taken control of fellow journalist Barkha Dutt's account. They have threatened to make information from her official email account public.
The twin strikes came just a day after business tycoon Vijay Mallya's twitter account was hacked.
The hitherto unknown hackers who calls themselves "legion" had first made headlines after they took control of twitter accounts of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and the INC. They also have claimed to be in possession of Congress's email data.
Bobins Abraham is the Assistant News Editor at Indiatimes. He has more than twelve years of experience in TV and digital journalism. An avid student of history and geopolitics, he is a conservationist and environmentalist at heart. He writes on environment, sustainability, human-animal conflict and more.
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