Twitter confirms account of PM Modi's personal website hacked
03 September, 2020
Twitter confirmed on Thursday (Sep 3) that an account of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal website was hacked with a series of tweets asking its followers to contribute to a relief fund through cryptocurrency.
The incident employs several Twitter accounts of prominent personalities were hacked in July.
Twitter said it had been aware of the activity with Modi's website account and has taken steps to secure it.
"We are actively investigating the problem. At this time, we are not aware of additional accounts being impacted," a Twitter spokeswoman said in an emailed statement.
Modi's office didn't immediately react to a request for comment on the tweets posted on the account @narendramodi_in.
The account, with over 2.5 million followers, may be the official Twitter handle for Modi's personal website and the Narendra Modi mobile application.
Modi's personal Twitter account, that was unaffected by this incident, has over 61 million followers.
The tweets, which have since been removed, asked the followers to donate to the PM National Relief Fund through cryptocurrency.
Hackers had in July accessed Twitter's internal systems to hijack a number of the platform's top voices including US presidential prospect Joe Biden, former US President Barack Obama and billionaire Elon Musk, and used them to solicit digital currency.
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