Twitter account of PM Modi’s personal website hacked!Investigation is going on

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Twitter account of PM Modi’s personal website hacked!

On Thursday, the Twitter account of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal website was hacked, the social media giant confirmed.

The account @narendramodi_in was compromised and cryptic messages were posted.

Quickly after the development came to the fore, a Twitter spokesperson said, “We are actively investigating the situation. At this time, we are not aware of additional accounts being impacted.”

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Hackers asked for generous donation: Reports PM’s personal account, having over 61 million followers, was unaffected. Twitter locked affected accounts, launched investigation, Dorsey felt terrible.

Hackers asked for generous donation: Reports

Hackers asked for generous donation:

One tweet posted on the account, after it was hacked, read, “I appeal to you all to donate generously to PM National Relief Fund for Covid-19, Now India begin with crypto currency, Kindly Donate eth to 0xae073DB1e5752faFF169B1ede7E8E94bF7f80Be6.

And another tweet read, “Yes this account is hacked by John Wick (hckindia@tutanota.com), We have not hacked Paytm Mall.

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PM’s personal account, having over 61 million followers, was unaffected

The verified account has over 2.5 million followers.

When the incident got attention, one of the first things that Twitter did was lock all affected accounts, effectively disabling functions like resetting passwords, etc. Going the extra mile, it stopped even the unaffected verified Twitter users from posting anything.

Announcing that an investigation is underway, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had said, “Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened.”

Originally published at https://myyoyotech.blogspot.com on September 3, 2020.