New Delhi:
The Twitter account of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s private web site and cellular app was hacked early this morning, the social media big has confirmed. Twitter mentioned that it has taken “steps to safe the compromised account” and is “actively investigating” the state of affairs.
The account goes by the deal with narendramodi_in.
“We’re conscious of this exercise and have taken steps to safe the compromised account. We’re actively investigating the state of affairs. Presently, we’re not conscious of further accounts being impacted,” a Twitter spokesperson mentioned in an announcement.
The incident comes after a number of Twitter accounts of outstanding personalities had been hacked in July.
PM Modi’s private Twitter account, which was unaffected by this incident, has over 61 million followers.
Hackers had in July accessed Twitter’s inside techniques to hijack a few of the platform’s prime voices together with US presidential candidate Joe Biden, former US President Barack Obama and billionaire Elon Musk, and used them to solicit digital forex.
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