The Twitter account of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting was briefly compromised on Wednesday. The hackers modified the identify of the profile to ‘Elon Musk’ and posted a tweet that learn, ‘Great job’.
The ministry later clarified that the account has been restored.
This appears to be the official twitter deal with of I&B ministry @MIB_India was briefly hacked. In the identify of billionaire Elon Musk, together with a number of spam tweets. pic.twitter.com/q1GG7ZTwi1
— Krishn Kaushik (@Krishn_) 12 January 2022
This incident comes a month after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s private Twitter account was hacked, Tweets selling the cryptocurrency have been shared earlier than the account was reinstated.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS