The official website
of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has
been allegedly hacked just hours after the site exposed more than 1
Million email addresses of users who spoke in support of Net
Neutrality.
A hackers collective,
calls itself AnonOpsIndia,
has claimed responsibility for the distributed denial of service (DDoS)
attack against the TRAI official website and bringing the site
down.
Few hours ago, a
Twitter account linked to AnonOpsIndia tweeted about the took down of the
trai.gov.in website through DDoS attack.
Over a month ago,
TRAI released a consultation paper with 20 questions to be answered by citizens
of India via an e-mail by April 24, in order to hear their opinion on Net
Neutrality.
TRAI was planning to
allow telecom operators like Vodafone and Airtel to block websites and
applications just to extort more money from businesses as well as consumers,
which is nothing but an extreme violation of Net Neutrality.
However, when every
Internet user were busy to virtual battle for the SaveTheInternet
campaign in support of Net Neutrality…
...TRAI leaked the
email addresses of all the users, earlier today, who sent their
responses for Net Neutrality issue to the TRAI, which would be a jackpot for
both spammers as well as hackers.
Not just email
addresses, TRAI also published respective responses of people.
The regulatory divided the responses under three categories namely —
- Comments from service providers
- Comments from service providers
associations
- Comments from other stakeholders.
In a series of
tweets, the group said on their motives to fight for the freedom of Internet in
India.
Here are some of
their tweets:
"Host is
down" all over my terminal. Thank you! Boom Boom #TRAI http://trai.gov.in
Fuck you TRAI!
HaHa what good is #TRAI if they can't manage their own fucking servers. Useless.
We are a just bunch of kids trolling “brilliant” minds at #TRAI who have no clue how to handle such situation. Sorry India, you deserve better.
HaHa what good is #TRAI if they can't manage their own fucking servers. Useless.
We are a just bunch of kids trolling “brilliant” minds at #TRAI who have no clue how to handle such situation. Sorry India, you deserve better.
Get Ready for Spam and
Phishing emails:
The TOOK DOWN
occurred just hours after the TRAI revealed the names and email addresses of
more than 1 Million users who had sent their views on Net Neutrality, making
all the respondents' email IDs potentially available to spammers.
So if you were one of
those who sent an email to the TRAI any time in last month may
expect flood of spam emails from loan companies, credit card companies,
marketing companies, hackers, phishers and many more.
Meanwhile, the TRAI
officials denied any hacking claims and said that the official TRAI website was
down "due to some technical glitches."
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