'Anarchists' Legion claim to have sansad emails

India's latest Internet sensation is a group of 7-9 individuals who call themselves Legion. They have no face, no individual name, no apparent motive, but seem to be quite media savvy and seeking attention.

In interviews with multiple publications, a member of the group Legion that has so far hacked the emails of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, liquor baron Vijay Mallya, and journalists Barkha Dutt and Ravish Kumar, said that their next conquest would involve dumping classified emails of parliamentarians.

"Next is a dump of sansad.nic.in emails. Which is quite big. It includes a lot of _BIG FISH_," said the hackers to online technology publication Factor Daily on Monday.

Sansad is the email service for parliamentarians that is managed by National Informatics Centre, the government's technology arm.

The move which is being built up as a tidal wave against corrupt politicians and lawmakers could have big repercussions in revealing other sensitive data about the country. However, the hackers say harm to innocents isn't going to deter them from releasing the information.

In other interviews, the group says it has no political motivation or agenda and isn't handpicking candidates to hack but has just got its hands on "terabytes" of information and letting the data pick its targets. "We are a bunch of computer geeks addicted to crime and drugs," the hackers told Washington Post.

Lalit Modi's name has featured in the prospective list of targets. Legion also has a bit of advice for India's agenda of pushing digital payments. The group has said that digital payments, including the government's favourite NEFT/IMPS protocols have been cracked and are vulnerable.

"We ourselves have confidential data pertaining to NPCI/ IDRBT hub servers, and even have the encryption keys/ certificates used by some banks in India," the hackers told Factors Daily, claiming themselves as "anarchists" who are wanted by multiple international agencies.

"The question is, will they ever find us? And if they do- will they prosecute us with enough evidence? And if they do, will the world be a better place? Or will it miss the superior cyber criminals it just lapsed behind bars?" the hackers claimed.

Moreover, the group's support for PM Modi's Digital India campaign wasn't the strongest, suggesting that the government should look into the security of all its systems, especially payments, before launching anything new. "We support #DigitalIndia, only with cryptocurrency! What's better than holding your own money?" they added.