Sunday 12 December 2021:
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal Twitter account has been “very briefly compromised,” the prime minister’s office has said.
A swiftly deleted tweet from his main @narendramodi handle declared India had adopted Bitcoin as legal tender and was distributing the cryptocurrency to citizens.
It said the Indian government had officially bought 500 Bitcoins and was “distributing them to all residents of the country”, along with a scam link.
The matter was escalated to Twitter and the prime minister’s personal Twitter handle was immediately secured, Modi’s office wrote in a tweet late on Saturday.
Any tweet shared during the brief period when the account was compromised must be ignored, it said.
It was not immediately known how long the personal Twitter handle of Modi, which has more than 73 million followers, was compromised.
Twitter users grabbed screenshots of the since-deleted tweet.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi twitter account hacked? pic.twitter.com/VyTNd2FDSr
— Aditya Raj Kaul (@AdityaRajKaul) December 11, 2021
Modi’s account was previously briefly compromised in September 2020, when hackers asked followers in a series of tweets to donate to India’s National Relief Fund through cryptocurrency.
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