PMO India Twitter, announced on Sunday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter had been “very briefly compromised” and had been secured after the matter was escalated to the microblogging site.
During the time the account was hacked, a false tweet was sent claiming that India had adopted Bitcoin as legal tender and that the country had purchased the digital currency to distribute to citizens.
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The Hacked Account
“PM @narendramodi’s Twitter account was briefly hacked. The situation was reported to Twitter, which immediately secured the account. Any Tweet shared during the brief period when the account was hacked should be ignored “India’s Prime Minister’s Office sent out a tweet.
Several users on Twitter provided copies of tweets from PM Modi’s account claiming “India has officially recognised bitcoin as legal money.”
“India has made bitcoin legal tender. The government has purchased 500 BTC and is distributing them to all citizens “check out the now-deleted tweet Users swarmed Twitter with screenshots of the now-deleted tweet. An unknown party previously hacked the Twitter account that updated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s website and mobile app in September 2020.
Response
In response to questions from various news reporters, a Twitter spokeswoman stated that the firm has “24X7 open lines of contact with the Prime Minister’s Office” and that “required procedures to safeguard the compromised account” were done as soon as the platform was notified.
“We have open channels of contact with the PM’s Office 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and our teams took the appropriate actions to secure the hacked account as soon as we were made aware of the behaviour,” said the spokesperson. According to a corporate spokeswoman, “our research has determined that there are no further compromised accounts at this time.”