Anonymous India Bring Down Trai Website For Revealing 1 Million Petitioners Email Ids

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.

— AnonOpsIndia (@opindia_revenge) April 27, 2015

— AnonOpsIndia (@opindia_revenge) April 27, 2015

— 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.

— 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.