Our email list "indiaresists" [IAC#RG] was blocked / hacked for about 20 hours yesterday a few hours after the list circulated my email to office of NAC concerning Italian Nationality of Chairperson NAC. The list functionalilty is now restored and pending messages are being delivered.
Unlike the previous such instances when we tracked the hackers to using Indian Government computers, this time the attack has been traced to the notorious Chinese mercenary "comment crew" unit 61398 hackers which is apparently controlled by the Chinese Government.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/analects/2013/02/chinese-cyber-attacks
As the cyber war attacks against IAC are intensifying and getting increasingly more sophisticated, it is likely that our emails lists will get increasingly disrupted. We are therefore significantly reducing the amount of messages circulated from IAC's lists with immediate effect..
Sarbajit
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear IAC subscribers
Many of you would have noticed a sudden increase in "Hindutva" and VHP type of messages in our group recently and may have drawn some wrong conclusions.
We wish to now inform you that these were part of a large international Chinese hacking attempt to penetrate computers of IAC members, to plant trojans by spoofing emails as sent from our list, and also to hack our email servers. There is a large coordinated attempt by professional Chinese military hackers know as PLA 61398 and other Chinese military cyber hacking units posing as militant Hindus and joining various Internet forums and posting comments on blogs, Facebook, Indiatimes, NDTV etc.
In the past 2 weeks IAC has identified over 300 fake persons and identities masquerading as Hindu / nationalist patriots, and we are eliminating most (but not all) from this mailing list. We hope that after this IAC has eliminated most of the anti-national persons from the movement and we can now get on with our work of cleansing India which has been hindered by one corrupt force or another.
with best wishes to everyone
Sarbajit
National Convenor.
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