The additional Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi linked to his personal website was hacked Wednesday night.
Tweets appeared urging followers to make donations to 'PM National Relief Fund for COVID-19' through cryptocurrency. The @narendramodi_in handle is the third handle of Modi apart from @narendramodi and @PMOIndia.
The verified Twitter account, which is linked to PM Modi's personal website, has over 2.5 million followers. A Twitter spokesperson has confirmed having knowledge of the issue in response to the media query. Twitter said the microblogging website is taking steps to secure the compromised account. The tweets urging for donations and other related tweets have now disappeared.
"We are 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," republicworld.com quoted a Twitter spokesperson as saying.
The hacking of Modi's Twitter account comes after the accounts of several noted personalities across the political and industrial spectrum, mainly US, were hacked in July. Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates were among the ones whose accounts were hacked in July. Even Twitter's own account was not spared by the hackers then.
