Legion – the name has been making the rounds in the news media these days. This is the name of the organisation, who has managed to hack into four high-profile Twitter accounts commandeering them as vehicles to release the account owners’ personal telephone numbers, bank account details and email passwords. The first target was the heir to the Congress party Rahul Gandhi, next Vijay Mallya, the embattled former chairman of India’s biggest liquor company Kingfisher, who fled into Britain few months ago amid allegations of financial fraud and money laundering.
According to The Washington Post, one of the hackers of Legion talked with one of their staff writers Max Bearak and told him about Legion’s motives and plans for future hacks.
They chatted on Saturday, hours before the hacker would burst back into the public consciousness through the Twitter accounts of Barkha Dutt and Ravish Kumar, two prominent news show hosts of NDTV.
