There is increasing ransomware attacks across the globe and the social media has no exceptions. Specially the high profile leaders are on the high target, recently Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Twitter handle was "very briefly compromised" and was secured later after the matter was escalated to the micro-blogging site, Prime Minister's Office (PMO) informed on Sunday.
The Twitter handle of PM @narendramodi was very briefly compromised. 2nd time a Twitter Handle related to PM gets hacked. Earlier, it was in September, 2020.The matter was escalated to Twitter and the account has been immediately secured. In the brief period that the account was compromised, any Tweet shared must be ignored," PMO India tweeted.
The matter was escalated to Twitter and the account has been immediately secured. In the brief period that the account was compromised, any Tweet shared must be ignored. The account has now been restored and the malicious tweets have been deleted. Modi has over 73.4M followers on the micro-blogging site.
As per the screenshots shared on Twitter by several users, tweets were put out from Modi's account claiming "India has officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender"."India has officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender. The government has officially bought 500 BTC and is distributing them to all residents of the country," read the now-deleted tweet.
