All you need to know about Legion, the hacker group that targetted the biggies

A group of hackers who call themself Legion are making news recently Not only they shot into limelight for breaking into the Twitter accounts of some of the countrys most hiprofile personalities but they have also been posting contents ranging from derisive tweets to private information dumpsWhat is LegionIt is a coalition of likeminded hackers based out of five countries ndash the United States Sweden Canada Thailand and Romania according to the Delhi policersquos cybercrime cell The group seeks to expand its activities leaving its email id legion_groupsigaintorg ndash for more hackers to join their campaignwhat is Sigaint and how does this all workIn a tweet Legion whose country of origin is yet to be known asked people to support them sigaintorg According to the Sigaint website it is a darknet email service that allows you to send and receive email without revealing your location or identity Sigaint claims to provide email IDs which are secure on TOR browser The website is hosted on onionto but the service claims it does not host the Sigaint content Famous among individuals and businesses who want to remain anonymous online Tor is a free software and an open network that helps users defend against traffic analysis a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy confidential business activities and relationships and state security Sigaint also claims that emails created by the network can only be accessed by downloading TOR browserSimilarities with Legion of Doom A similar hacking group Legion of Doom LoD operated in mid 80s that targeted the rich and famous peoples email accounts Although this group does not appear to have any links with the hackersrsquo group Legion of Doom LoD the two groups appear to share ideological goals LoD remained active till early 2000s LOD was founded by Lex Luthor which was active in late 1990s and early 2000 and is ranked as one of the most influential hacking groups in the history of technologyWhy is Legion hacking accountsLegion portrays itself as cyber vigilantes working to expose the corrupt But the group is yet to bolster their anticorruption crusader credentials given that it has so far offered very little valuable informationHow does Legion operateLegion communicates through email servers and browsers that are shielded against surveillance In other words it does not use Google Chrome or Internet Explorer but a browser called The Onion Router TOR which is difficult to track provides anonymity and allows a user to communicate directly with another one This is also called the darknet a platform often used by activists and journalists seeking to avoid a surveillance dragnetWhich are other notorious hacking groupsLizard Squad Anonymous LulzSec Syrian Electronic Army Chaos Computer Club CCC Irans Tarh Andishan The Level Seven Crew globalHell are some ofWhose accounts have Legion hacked till nowIndian National Congress INC and Congress vicepresident Rahul Gandhi business tycoon Vijay Mallya NDTV journalists Barkha Dutt and Ravish Kumar While Gandhis and INCrsquos Twitter hack mostly consisted of offensive tweets with no information being shared Mallyarsquos 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 Kumarrsquos Twitter being hacked