TRAI website hacked by Anonymous India after they reveal email details of over 1 million Net Neutrality supporters
The Indian arm of the online hacktivist collective, Anonymous today brought down the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Â website through a Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attack. Anonymous India said that it had attacked TRAI for making public the email IDs of 1 million petitioners in favour of net neutrality.
Anonymous India made a series of tweets claiming responsibility for bringing down trai.gov.in and also warned that the site will soon be hacked.
#TRAI forgot about us hahaha! We reminded them that we are still here. BOOM BOOM https://t.co/5bNzEGt4oU
— AnonOpsIndia (@opindia_revenge) April 27, 2015
But just an alarm for whole #India. You trust incompetent #TRAI who don't know how to deal with DDoS? Seriously sorry guys. Goodluck!
— AnonOpsIndia (@opindia_revenge) April 27, 2015
@tame_wildcard No we just preventing spammers from accessing those Email IDs posted by #TRAI publicly.
— AnonOpsIndia (@opindia_revenge) April 27, 2015
Earlier in the day, the TRAI made public the email id’s of 1 million petitioners, who had emailed TRAI in favour of strict net neutrality laws in India. As part of the consultation on net neutrality, the TRAI had invited Indian users to email them directly and convey their views on their consultation paper by 24 April. The response was overwhelming with over 1.1 million mails being sent to the TRAI in under two weeks.
BRAVO, TRAI for exposing a million plus email IDs of those who mailed U. And we shd trust U & the calls u take? pic.twitter.com/OOI7UeyFLk
— Rajesh Kalra (@rajeshkalra) April 27, 2015
It is not know who in TRAI is exactly responsible for this intentional leak of the email ids. Such publication of email ids could be used for spamming or spear phishing attacks against the individuals who had petitioned in favour of net neutrality.
