Inside India's big Twitter hacks: Legion group makes more, bigger threats

For the big guns in India, Twitter is no longer a safe place. 

At 8.30 p.m on Nov. 30, Rahul Gandhi, the heir of the Indian National Congress Party, India's oldest political party, started tweeting a series of obscene posts to his 1.2 million followers. The half-a-dozen tweets posted in the next 40 minutes were demeaning and aimed at insulting Rahul Gandhi himself. Hackers had also changed his bio on Twitter to "Retarded Gandhi." 

Shortly afterwards, a spokesperson for the Congress party confirmed that Gandhi's account had been hacked. A hacker group, which calls itself 'Legion', took responsibility for the hack, though it didn't disclose the motive behind it.  Read more...