According to officers, some posts tagging entrepreneur Elon Musk had been tweeted from the ministry’s Twitter deal with.
“It occurred for round 10-Quarter-hour after which the Twitter deal with was restarted. There had been random posts and replies tagging Elon Musk. It is simply too early to touch upon the investigational facet of the matter because the plan of motion is but to be determined.
According to reviews, the hackers retweeted a number of of Musk’s posts and likewise tweeted ‘Great Job’ from the official deal with of the ministry.
The tweets had been deleted after the account was restored.
“@Mib_india’s account has been restored. This is for the information of all followers,” the ministry tweeted.
Last month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter deal with was additionally briefly hacked and a tweet claimed that India had “lawfully adopted bitcoin as legal tender”. However, the Prime Minister’s Office later mentioned that the account was instantly secured after the matter was escalated on Twitter.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
