{"id":38662,"date":"2016-12-01T03:54:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T03:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=38662"},"modified":"2016-12-01T03:54:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T03:54:57","slug":"rahuls-twitter-hacked-abused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/rahuls-twitter-hacked-abused\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahuls twitter hacked-abused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The official Twitter account of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi was hacked this evening and multiple abusive tweets were posted on it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eight tweets were posted in quick succession around 8:30 pm. One of the hacked posts read &#8220;My family is a bunch of corrupt&#8230;.(expletives) retarded&#8230; (expletives)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38664\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rahul-gandhis-twitter-account-hacked-abused-congress-cries-conspiracy-5.jpg\" alt=\"Rahuls twitter hacked-abused\" width=\"900\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rahul-gandhis-twitter-account-hacked-abused-congress-cries-conspiracy-5.jpg 900w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rahul-gandhis-twitter-account-hacked-abused-congress-cries-conspiracy-5-768x452.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tweets were deleted in about an hour, but new ones came up immediately after that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The hackers have also removed Mr Gandhi&#8217;s profile picture and changed the title of the account from @OfficeOfRG to an abusive one.<br \/>\nThe account has now been restored and all objectionable tweets have been removed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38665\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rahul.jpg\" alt=\"Rahuls twitter hacked-abused\" width=\"630\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala reacted by tweeting, &#8220;@OfficeOfRG hacked. Such lowly tactics will never drown sane voice of reason nor deter Rahul Gandhi from raising people&#8217;s issues. (sic)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also tweeted, &#8220;Such unscrupulous,unethical&amp;roguish conduct of venal trolls 2hack @OfficeOfRG reflects disturbing insecurities of prevalent fascist culture. (sic)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38666\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rahul-1.jpg\" alt=\"Rahuls twitter hacked-abused\" width=\"730\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s Twitter handle has been hacked. We will file a complaint with the Cyber Cell of city police,&#8221; Pranav Jha, Congress&#8217;s media coordinator told a news agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official Twitter account of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi was hacked this evening and multiple abusive tweets were posted on it. Eight tweets were posted in quick succession around 8:30 pm. One of the hacked posts read &#8220;My family is a bunch of corrupt&#8230;.(expletives) retarded&#8230; (expletives)&#8221;. The tweets were deleted in about an hour, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[849,17892,17890,305,17891,17893,17889,17887,17888],"class_list":["post-38662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-congress-vice-president-rahul-gandhi","tag-officeofrg","tag-quick-succession","tag-rahul-gandhi","tag-rahuls-twitter","tag-rahuls-twitter-hacked-abused","tag-tweets","tag-twitter-account","tag-twitter-hacked"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Rahuls-twitter-hacked-abused.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}