Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath (Express photo by Vishal Srivastav) The twitter handle of the office of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was hacked briefly early on Saturday. Reacting to this, the state government said that “strict action” would be taken against those involved.
“An attempt was made to hack the official Twitter account @CMOfficeUP of the Chief Minister’s Office on April 09 at 12:30 am by anti-social elements, who had posted some tweets which were recovered immediately. (sic),” a tweet in Hindi by the CM’s office read.
The hackers had replaced the profile picture with that of a cartoon and posted hundreds of tweets. The exact duration of the hack is yet to be ascertained. The account has more than 40.53 lakh followers. Over 300 tweets were posted as spam and previous old tweets were also deleted by the hacker.
The hackers had changed the profile picture of the account. 
A message on “How to turn your BAYC/MAYC animated on Twitter” was posted on the timeline. A message stating “How to turn your BAYC/MAYC animated on Twitter” was posted on the timeline by the hackers.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter account was also hacked last year in December. The hackers had put out a tweet from the PM’s Twitter handle claiming that India has “officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender”. Sharing a link and asking people to “hurry up”, the hackers had written: “The government has officially bought 500 BTC and is distributing them to all residents of the country.”
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