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This story is from December 12, 2021

PM Modi's Twitter handle 'very briefly' compromised, restored later

PM Narendra Modi's Twitter handle was "very briefly compromised", Prime Minister's Office (PMO) informed on Sunday. It was secured later after the matter was escalated to the micro-blogging site. The account has now been restored and the malicious tweets have been deleted. After PM Modi's account was compromised, #Hacked began trending.
PM Modi's Twitter handle 'very briefly' compromised, restored later
PM Narendra Modi (TOI file photo)
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Twitter handle was "very briefly compromised", Prime Minister's Office (PMO) informed on Sunday.
It was secured later after the matter was escalated to the micro-blogging site.
"The Twitter handle of PM @narendramodi was very briefly compromised. The matter was escalated to Twitter and the account has been immediately secured. In the brief period that the account was compromised, any Tweet shared must be ignored," PMO India tweeted.

The account has now been restored and the malicious tweets have been deleted.
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After PM Modi's account was compromised, #Hacked began trending. The Prime Minister has over 73.4M followers on the micro-blogging site.
As per the screenshots shared on Twitter by several users, tweets were put out from PM Modi's account claiming "India has officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender".
"India has officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender. The government has officially bought 500 BTC and is distributing them to all residents of the country," read the now-deleted tweet.

Users flooded the micro-blogging site with the screenshot of the now-deleted tweet.

Political activist Tehseen Poonawalla also took to Twitter and said, "Was the Twitter account of the Hon'ble PM shri #NarendraModi ji hacked? And promise of #Bitcoin !!"
Meanwhile, Twitter issued a clarification saying that they took necessary steps to restore the account and that there's no signs of any other impacted accounts.
"We have 24X7 open lines of communication with the PM’s Office & our teams took necessary steps to secure the compromised account as soon as we became aware of this activity. Our probe revealed that there're no signs of any other impacted accounts at this time," Twitter spokesperson said in a statement.
- With agency inputs
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