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Twitter accounts of Barkha Dutt, Ravish Kumar hacked

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The twitter accounts of senior journalists Barkha Dutt and Ravish Kumar were hacked by a group going by the name 'legion'. The same group had claimed responsibility for the hacks on liquor baron Vijay Mallya's account. 

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Apart from tweeting offensive messages, the group threatened to leak 1 TB of confidential data.

"Coming up next. Lalit Modi leaks. Stay tuned," the group posted. The tweets were soon taken down. 

Earlier, the same group had targeted Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi. Some messages with profanities were put out on Rahul Gandhi's account on November 30. 

The hackers also removed the Congress leader's profile picture and changed the title of the account from @OfficeOfRG to an abusive one.

A day later, the official twitter account of the Congress party also came under fire of the hacker group. One of the tweets posted on the account said that a "full dump" of Congress emails will be posted. "Stay tuned for Christmas special. We have enough info to drop your party down to shreds," it had said.

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