The account of the personal website of PM Narendra Modi was hacked, confirmed Twitter. It further added that it was aware of the activity and took steps to secure the hacked account. It also followed a series of cryptic tweets.
Twitter said it knew about the incident, acknowledged the hacking of PM Modi’s website, and took measures to protect the compromised account. A spokesperson for Twitter told Reuters news agency they are actively investigating the situation and are not aware of any additional accounts being affected at this time.
In a series of tweets, the messages posted on PM Modi’s personal website’s Twitter account, which goes through the handle narendramodi_in, read: “I appeal to all of you to generously donate to PM National Relief Fund for Covid-19, Now India start with cryptocurrency, Kindly Donate eth to0xae073DB1e5752faFF169B1ede7E8E94bF7f80Be6.”
The series of tweets are given in the picture along with the encrypted codes as mentioned above to loot money from innocents, as per reports.
On August 30, at Paytm Mall, the E-commerce arm of unicorn Paytm, cybersecurity firm Cyble had claimed that hacker group John Wick was behind a “massive data breach.”
Cyble had claimed that the group of hackers had also demanded ransom because they had unrestricted access to the database of the company. However, Paytm had said during an investigation that it had found no data breach.
The incident comes after several influential celebrities’ Twitter accounts were hacked out in July.
Verified user twitter accounts such as Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk were hacked as messages related to cryptocurrency were added to their accounts. During the big breach, the corporate accounts for Uber and Apple have also been affected.
Following the significant security penetrate, India’s CERT-In cybersecurity nodal organization sent a notification to Twitter in July requesting full data of the high profile hackers focusing on the worldwide hack from the microblogging platform.
The Indian Government at that point mentioned data on weaknesses abused by the attackers and modulus Operandi, as indicated by the PTI report, and looked for subtleties of Twitter’s measures to moderate the effect of the hacking occurrence.
A 17-year-old kid from Florida aced hacking VIP accounts on Twitter Inc. in August, authorities said. A 19-year-old British man and a 22-year-elderly person in Orlando, Florida, both were charged under US government law with supporting the assault.