The Twitter account of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s site and mobile application was hacked earlier today, the web-based media goliath has affirmed. Twitter said that it has taken “steps to secure the compromised account” and is “actively investigating” and is “effectively researching” the circumstance.
The last tweet before being hacked was made on August 31. The tweet has a statement of PM Modi from his month to the month radio program “Mann Ki Baat“.
The record passes by the handle narendramodi_in.
PM Narendra Modi’s own site’s Twitter account was hacked on Thursday with a progression of tweets requesting that its followers donate to the relief fund through cryptocurrency. Twitter said it was aware of the action and that the account has been restored.
Twitter representative said in an announcement. “We’re aware of this activity and have taken steps to secure the compromised account. We are actively investigating the situation. At this time, we are not aware of additional accounts being impacted,”
The episode comes after a few Twitter records of conspicuous characters were hacked in July.
Prime minister Modi’s own Twitter account, which was unaffected by this occurrence, has more than 61 million followers.
People aware of the details, nonetheless, said there is no sign or proof at this phase of any relationship between the compromise of this account and the episode that occurred in July, hackers in July got into Twitter’s inner frameworks to capture a portion of the top known voices including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and used them to solicit digital currency.
As PM Modi’s Twitter was hacked, a hacker self-confessed additionally uncovered that it wasn’t he who hacked the Paytm Mall. This was concerning cybersecurity firm Cyble’s case on August 30, that a hacker group called John Wick (named after Keanu Reeves’ character in the film of the same name) was behind a piece of information penetrate at Paytm Mall, an online business wing of the Paytm instalments application. Cyble had additionally asserted that the programmer bunch requested payoff, notwithstanding, Paytm said it didn’t discover any information penetrate in its framework during its examination.
PM Modi has three accounts on Twitter, to be specific: @narendramodi which has about 61.8 million followers and is one of the most followed accounts on the planet. The subsequent record is worked by his office, for example, @PMOIndia which has about 38.4 million followers, and the third one was the twitter represent his site narendramodi.in which was hacked on early Thursday.
