The Indian arm of a hacker group 'Anonymous' - called Anonymous Operation India - has been removed from Facebook and Twitter. Both the 'Operation India' Facebook page and '@operationindia' Twitter handle are no more accessible.
'Anonymous' is a 'hacktivist' group that has been linked to the recent attack on Sony as well as against the governments of Iran, Spain, New Zealand and Colombia. Their operations started in India recently and came into the limelight when they claimed to have hacked the National Informatics Centre website and the Indian Army website last week .
The NIC site on the URL
http://informatics.nic.in/oldnewsonline/abc.html was defaced with graffiti that said: "We exist without nationality. We exist with humanity. NIC took 3 mins."
In a similar hack, the Indian Army's website was reportedly taken down for about an hour. According to www.hackernews.com, the hackers also released password/ login information and forensic logs of indianarmy.nic.in. The Denial of Service (DoS) attack reportedly did not harm the site and there was no data loss. The site also quotes a message from them that states, "We took Down Indian Army Official Site and NIC knows more what we did."
In a message posted on their IRC (Internet Relay Chat) group, Anonymous claimed responsibility for both hacks saying, "The NIC hack, was merely a taste of what may come...The time has come now, when we'll wage a war of independence - from corruption and we promise to fight till the end."
After the attacks the group has placed its demands that include taking strong and decisive measures to root-out corruption and stem the rot plaguing Indian politics, the expeditious passing of the Lokpal Bill and prescription of severe punishment for corrupt officials. Find below the complete message from the hacking group.