Anonymous pulled down Twitter in India to avenge OpIndia_Revenge block

There have been a spate of attacks by hacking group Anonymous on scores of Indian websites through this month. While the security of some BJP websites were compromised yesterday, those belonging to the Supreme Court of India, All India Congress Committee and Reliance met the same fate through this month. Reports about popular microblogging website Twitter in India being hacked into, too surfaced this week. Reports claim that Twitter in India was attacked when the hacker group claimed that they did so in retaliation to the Indian government allegedly blocking their Twitter handle - OpIndia_Revenge. Reports about the hack came in on Saturday, which is when the group made it public. Users trying to access the site, during that time were instead redirected to a message by Anonymous, one of which read - "Told you not to mess with free speech and lesser with Anonymous. Government of India, you know what you did wrong. you caused out twitter account to be blocked now we will show you what anonymous is capable of doing (sic).”

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