Anonymous hacks TRAI website after email IDs row

In a recent development, hacker group Anonymous India has brought down TRAI's official website after the Indian telecom regulator publicly released the list of email IDs from which it received responses on Net Neutrality. TRAI's controversial move that threatened the privacy of over a million Internet users in India was met with widespread contemplation. The general argument was that publicly disclosing the email IDs had made it easy for spammers to gain access to a huge database of email IDs in one go. Anonymous India has posted a series of tweets claiming responsibility for bringing down train.gov.in website via some supposed DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack. Moreover, the hacker group has warned that it would soon hack the website. The TRAI website is down as of the moment. According to Anonymous India it was "just preventing spammers from accessing those Email IDs posted by Trai publicly" by meting out the attack. Earlier during the day, TRAI put up all the submissions it received on its website on net neutrality. This came days after the deadline to submit responses had expired. While making these submissions public is not a matter of hue and cry, making their email IDs public is. And the fact that there are over a million submissions means all these IDs are there live on TRAI's website for all to see. In a way, TRAI's move is a serious breach of privacy, accelerated by the fact that it's coming from a government organization.