Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter deal with was “very briefly compromised” and was secured later after the matter was escalated to the micro-blogging website, Prime Minister’s Workplace (PMO) knowledgeable within the wee hours on Sunday.
As per the screenshots shared on Twitter by a number of customers, tweets have been put out from PM Modi’s account claiming “India has formally adopted bitcoin as authorized tender”.
A Twitter Spokesperson instructed ET, “We now have 24X7 open traces of communication with the PM’s Workplace and our groups took crucial steps to safe the compromised account as
quickly as we grew to become conscious of this exercise. Our investigation has revealed that there aren’t any indicators of another impacted accounts presently.”
The controversial tweet has now been deleted and the account has been restored.
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“The Twitter deal with of PM @narendramodi was very briefly compromised. The matter was escalated to Twitter and the account was instantly secured. Within the transient interval that the account was compromised, any Tweet shared should be ignored,” PMO India tweeted.
Modi is one probably the most adopted international leaders on Twitter and has over 73.4 million followers on the micro-blogging website. After Modi’s account was compromised, #Hacked started trending in India.
Earlier, in September 2020, the Twitter account, which updates Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s private web site and cell app was hacked by an unknown group.
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