Telecom Regulator Authorisation of India’s (TRAI) website has been brought down by hacker group Anonymous India, following a public release of email IDs which TRAI had put live on its website regarding the responses it received for its consultation paper.
Anonymous India claimed responsibility for bringing down trai.gov.in with a series of tweets and warned that the site will soon be hacked. The group famous for its DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack on websites making it inaccessible seems to have used a similar technique here too.
#TRAI forgot about us hahaha! We reminded them that we are still here. BOOM BOOM http://t.co/5bNzEGt4oU
— AnonOpsIndia (@opindia_revenge) April 27, 2015
The TRAI website is back live but the rogues are still promising to strike back again, mocking the regulatory body in their tweets.
We are just bunch of kids trolling “brilliant” minds at #TRAI who have no clue how to handle such situation. Sorry India, you deserve better
— AnonOpsIndia (@opindia_revenge) April 27, 2015
Earlier TRAI had asked for responses from general audience on their view for regulating Over-the-top (OTT) services and it drafted a consultaion paper which addressed issues about security concerns and net neutrality. Over a million responses were received for the same.
TRAI had released those one million names along with the email IDs and the contents of their responses in a downloadable PDF format on the TRAI website for public viewing.
Anonymous India said it was by downing the website it was “just preventing spammers from accessing those Email IDs posted by Trai publicly.”
— Raman Chima (@tame_wildcard) 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
TRAI has been criticised all throughout the social media, slamming the organization allowing spammers access to the huge database of email IDs.
