After liquor baron Vijay Mallya and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, Twitter accounts of senior NDTV journalists Barkha Dutt and Ravish Kumar were also compromised on Saturday night. These breaches too were carried out by the hackers' group 'Legion'.

Legion appears to have accessed the Twitter accounts - @ravishndtv and @BDUTT - by first hacking into the email accounts used to set them up. The group posted expletive-laden messages from both accounts, which were restored soon after. They even shared the link to a "partial" database of Dutt's emails measuring 1.2GB.