Twitter has taken firmly to the recent hacking of the account of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal website's account on the microblogging site.
"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," a Twitter spokesperson said.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal website was hacked on Twitter by a hacker called 'John Wick' who called on the PM's followers to donate through cryptocurrency to the national relief fund.
The account which has over 2.5 million followers is the official Twitter handle for Modi’s personal website as well as the Narendra Modi mobile application. The hacker took the handles and put out messages seeking donations to PM National Relief Fund via Bitcoin.
The tweets have since been removed.
No sooner had news of the hacking gone viral, many Indians on Twitter started to berate the hacker, claiming that Bitcoin did not work in India. Many even schooled the hacker, claiming that he should have tried to ask for donations via PayTm instead.
Everyone knows that India doesn't uses bitcoin and so hacker should have used a little brain and asked for wallet like paytm money on PM Narendra Modi's personal website's twitter account @narendramodi_in has been #Hacked by a hacker claiming to be John wick. pic.twitter.com/8RiLzKDBsq
— BK DUREJA (@DUREJA_B) September 3, 2020
India me bitcoin chalta v he? #Hacked #NATION_HATES_MODI
— Purple (@theprajna321) September 2, 2020
PM Modi twitter account got #Hacked & #Hackers asked peoples to Donate Bitcoin.Meanwhile INDIANS suffering from economical crysis :- pic.twitter.com/9bUeOitq8e
— Ujjawal (@ujjawalcasm) September 3, 2020
#Hacked Yaha PM modi k accounts hack rahe hai aur yaha hum 2-step Authentication k bharose bethe hue haiBTW everyone is worried about bitcoin#PMOfIndia#pubgban pic.twitter.com/Zw0LaGsffK
— Darshan bairwa (@Bairwa_deep123) September 3, 2020
Dont hack indians account ... we have no idea what bitcoin is.. u wont get anything idiots... we believe on physical cash
— Rohit (Grade A Officer's Family) (@rohit000000000) September 2, 2020
Everyone knows that India doesn't uses bitcoin and so hacker should have used a little brain and asked for wallet like paytm money on PM Narendra Modi's personal website's account @narendramodi_in has been #Hacked by a hacker claiming to be John wick. pic.twitter.com/ThGkIEpICt pic.twitter.com/PysyI85G7z
— Raam verma (@rk2002verma) September 3, 2020
The hacking comes days after the entire database of online shopping platform Paytm Mall was reportedly hacked. Many had at the time blamed 'John Wick', who claims he hacked PM Modi's account to prove that he was indeed not the one to hack PayTm Mall.
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"We would like to assure that all user, as well as company data, is completely safe and secure... We have been investigating the claims of a possible hack and data breach, and haven't found any security lapses yet," a Paytm Mall spokesperson said in a statement at the time.
Meanwhile, Twitter in a statement to Reuters confirmed the activity with Modi’s website account and has taken steps to secure it.
"We are actively investigating the situation. At this time, we are not aware of additional accounts being impacted,” a Twitter spokeswoman said in an emailed statement.
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