According to reports, the group struck
the MTNL website through a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
attack. After the attack, MTNL's corporate website could not be
accessed. However, the city-specific websites for Delhi and Mumbai were
working. MTNL officials are working to make the website fully
operational. Anonymous India, meanwhile, said on its Facebook page,
“Anonymous has no Leaders, it is the people who decide...How many of
you in favour of taking down Reliance and Airtel ?...Like this post to
vote for Reliance. Share this post to vote for Airtel”.
Anonymous India is gearing up for its June 9 Occupy protests
across the nation. The self-proclaimed hactivists, are opposing the
government move to ban file sharing websites. The hacker group has
already targeted various government websites and also of political
parties and corporates.
In an open letter to the government, Anonymous India
says, “The HC Madras never issued any list of websites to be blocked,
the DoT never issued a list of websites to be censored. Why is that
ISPs are forced to block file sharing websites? Why is that instead of
blocking few links the whole domain was blocked? The blocking of these
websites is wrong and unjustified.”
“Torrents are widely used to distribute
open source and free software such as Linux distributions, and many
other books and publications that are in the public domain. Video
hosting sites like Vimeo are used by millions of people every day. You
no longer have access to this content even though it is perfectly
legal.”
In an another letter to bloggers and
journalists, Anonymous India attempts to justify its actions and seeks
support and from the media to boost its campaign. The hackers' group
also claims it is fighting for the media.
Hacked MTNL site
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