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New Delhi: The official twitter handler of controversial liquor baron Vijay Mallya appeared to be hacked on Friday morning.
A series of abusive and embarrassing tweets were sent out to over 5.51 million followers by a cracker group or individual named 'Legion'.
A group by the same name few days back hacked the twitter handler of Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi.
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My account has been hacked by some one called Legion who are Tweeting now in my name. Simply ignore. Will fix this .
&mdash; Vijay Mallya (@TheVijayMallya) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheVijayMallya/status/806984613381947392">December 8, 2016</a></blockquote>
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"My account has been hacked by some one called Legion who are tweeting now in my name. Simply ignore. Will fix this," Mallya tweeted in between the tweets by the Legion.
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Outfit called Legion has hacked my e-mail accounts and are blackmailing me !! What a joke.
&mdash; Vijay Mallya (@TheVijayMallya) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheVijayMallya/status/806985658929704961">December 8, 2016</a></blockquote>
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"Outfit called Legion has hacked my e-mail accounts and are blackmailing me!! What a joke," Mallya tweeted.
Proclaiming to be a vigilante, the crackers in a series of tweets claimed account details, address and phone numbers of Mallya.
"Hello. We are back with -- Vijay mallya's assets at several banks. All known passwords of Mr. Mallya," Legion tweeted from Mallya's account.
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They urged for public support claiming that they will be doing more such cracking in the coming weeks.
"People and brothers who support the cause - Join us! Email us at legion_group@sigaint.org. We require info on f***tards like this one!" a tweet said.
"Support Legion. We will bring you the info needed to bring these criminals to justice!"
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Support legion. We will bring you the info needed to bring these criminals to justice!
&mdash; Vijay Mallya (@TheVijayMallya) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheVijayMallya/status/807087464930312192">December 9, 2016</a></blockquote>
"This is just a partial dump. More data will be coming over the course of a few days ;) We are Legion. Do not f**k with us," another tweet said.
The tweets revolved around various account details of the liquor baron.
"The bank accounts, assets, passports, offshore investments of Mallya can be found at -- http://ge.tt/23DUlmh2," said another tweet with a link.
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The bank accounts, assets, passports, offshore investments of mallya can be found at -<a href="https://t.co/4PClILJG4n">https://t.co/4PClILJG4n</a>
&mdash; Vijay Mallya (@TheVijayMallya) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheVijayMallya/status/807086844525547520">December 9, 2016</a></blockquote>
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"We shall bring you more about this fraudster and conman over the course of the next few weeks. Slowly watch this bitch die as we expose him!," the group said.
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We shall bring you more about this fraudster and conman over the course of the next few weeks. Slowly watch this bitch die as we expose him!
&mdash; Vijay Mallya (@TheVijayMallya) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheVijayMallya/status/807087291877519360">December 9, 2016</a></blockquote>
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The crackers claimed they will release a list of all documents pertaining to Mallya over the course of few days.
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More info on Mallyas bank accounts &amp; foreign assets will be published as the investigation is completed in some other matters.
&mdash; Vijay Mallya (@TheVijayMallya) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheVijayMallya/status/807089595779256320">December 9, 2016</a></blockquote>
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"More info on Mallya's bank accounts and foreign assets will be published as the investigation is completed in some other matters," it said.
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We did not blackmail Mallya, any and all rumours are assumptions and fake! He is creating propaganda.
&mdash; Vijay Mallya (@TheVijayMallya) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheVijayMallya/status/807093408024195072">December 9, 2016</a></blockquote>
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