Twitter handle of PM Narendra Modi’s personal website hacked briefly

New Delhi: Microblogging site Twitter on Thursday confirmed that @narendramodi_in a Twitter account of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal website was hacked briefly in the wee hours. A report by news agency Reuters said a series of tweets asking followers of the page to donate to a relief fund through cryptocurrency were put out.

Twitter on Thursday said it has fixed the account of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal website @narendramodi_in that was briefly hacked in the wee hours and tweets asking people to donate Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were posted on it. Twitter handle @narendramodi_in is followed by 2.5 million users and is a platform for disseminating news about the PM’s activities, his statements and addresses.

In Similar incident that took place in July, hackers after accessing Twitter’s internal systems solicited digital currency from the accounts of U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden and former US president Barack Obama and billionaire Elon Musk among others.