Prime Minister Narendra Modis Twitter account was hacked and restored, Twitter said it had investigated the matter and that it appeared that the account “was not compromised due to any breach of Twitter’s systems”.
Responding to queries sent by a spokesperson for the company said that Twitter had “24X7 open lines of communication with the PM’s Office”, and that “necessary steps to secure the compromised account” were taken as soon as the platform was informed about it.
“We have 24X7 open lines of communication with the PM’s Office and our teams took necessary steps to secure the compromised account as soon as we became aware of this activity.
Our investigation has revealed that there are no signs of any other impacted accounts at this time,” a spokesperson for the company said.
On December 12, at 2:11 am, Modi’s Twitter account put out a tweet saying India had officially adopted Bitcoin as a legal tender, and that the government had bought 500 bitcoins, which it was “distributing” to all residents of the country.
The said tweet also had a link to a blog, which a postscript that said “The future has come today”.
