Vijay Mallya's Twitter account 'hacked'

NEW DELHI: Loans defaulter Vijay Mallya's Twitter account appears to have been hacked by the same group that cracked Rahul Gandhi's and the Congress party's accounts last week.

"My account has been hacked by some one called Legion who are Tweeting now in my name. Simply ignore. Will fix this," Mallya said in a tweet.

"Outfit called Legion has hacked my e-mail accounts and are blackmailing me !! What a joke," Mallya said in another tweet.

The hackers have posted a series of tweets claiming they have details of Mallya's assets at several banks, and passwords of various accounts.

"Hello We are back with - Vijay Mallya's assets at several banks All known passwords of Mr. Mallya," the group tweeted.

Calling for public support, “the Legion” claimed that they will bring more information about criminals to bring them to justice.

"Support legion. We will bring you the info needed to bring these criminals to justice! We shall bring you more about this fraudster and conman over the course of the next few weeks," the group said in tweets.

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Mallya owes more than Rs 9,000 crore to lenders like SBI, PNB, IDBI Bank, BoB, Allahabad Bank, Federal Bank and Axis Bank, among others. He left the country on March 3 this year and is currently said to be in Britain. His passport was revoked by the Indian government.

Here are some tweets, posted by apparently hacked account of Mallya.