New Delhi, Dec 13: Making nights of Sasiakala and his Mannrgudy clans sleepless, Legion, a group of hackers, which had invaded into the Twitter accounts of Rahul Gandhi, Vijay Mallya and Barkha Dutt, has disclosed it laid hands on the servers of Apollo Hospitals where late Jayalithaa underwent treatment and died, rather mysteriously.

Disclosing this to Washington Post member of the hacking group said “ his group had access to servers like that of India’s biggest private hospital chain Apollo.’’

He said they were unsure about releasing data from those servers because it might “chaos.’’

According to the hacker who was contacted by Washington Post, the next target would be Lalit Modi, a businessman, former head of India’s commercial cricket league, and outspoken supporter of the party currently in power.

Legion is a group of hackers and the members are based around the world, the hacker told the daily

He said about Legion’s motives and plans for future hacks.

The reporter of the daily got in touch with hacker (he would like to be called LC –Legion Crew) initially through email, as he had posted an address in one of his rapid-fire tweets from Mallya’s account –before it was suspended by Twitter.

The hacker said that Legion wasn’t even interested in “political data’’ until a few weeks ago. He told the daily that the group was in possession of several terabytes of raw data concerning all sorts of “interest’’ and that within that the hackers had identified gigabytes worth of information relating to Indian public figures.

“Right now, the only objective is to put as much as classified information out in the public domain as possible. We are bunch of computer g33kz addicted to crime and drug.’’

As for upcoming targets LC indicated that he and his fellow hackers had their sights set on bigger things. While tweeting Saturday night form the NDTV host’s accounts, he warned that the next target would be Lalit Modi, a businessman, former head of  India’s commercial cricket league, and outspoken supporter of the party currently in power, the report said.

Interestingly, a reader who has commented on the report ask when such hackers are active how India whose track record on digital security in not up to the mark,  can switch over to cashless digital economy.  He writes: “It’s hard to believe that this government is hell bent on taking India “cashless” – digital payments. The data security in this country is dismal to say the least as attested by this hacker.’’

“You will have a good report next year when this demonetization has killed Indian economy and then killed the consumers through swindles of digital payments.’’
Here are some interesting challenges that the readers of Washington Post has thrown up to the hackers