PM Narendra Modi’s Twitter hack incident occurred subsequent to numerous Twitter accounts of renowned personalities were hacked in July, which includes the likes of president Barack Obama, Tesla founder Elon Musk among others.
Twitter in a statement confirmed the malicious activity with PM Narendra Modi’s website account and has assured that necessary steps are being taken to secure the account.
A Twitter spokeswoman revealed in an emailed statement, “We are actively investigating the situation. At this time, we are not aware of additional accounts being impacted,” a Modi’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the tweets posted on the account @narendramodi_in.
In a row of tweets, the hacker masquerading as the PM urged his followers to donate to the PM National Relief Fund through cryptocurrency platform Bitcoin. In general such platform doesn’t trace any fraudulent activity, which is the reason behind such illicit hacks.
Numerous screenshots of the tweets, was taking the Internet by storm. However, amidst this turmoil, what caught the attention was about the hacker. The hacker identified himself as ‘John Wick’, [email protected] who made 4 tweets, claiming we have not hacked Paytm Mall, which looked more of a funny tweet.
Meanwhile many memes are now trending on twitter claiming it to be vengeance from PUB G players following it’s ban. However, twitter has not confirmed it and said it’s currently investigating the issue.