THELOGICALINDIAN - The absolute Twitter annual for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modis claimed website and adaptable app has been afraid Twitter has reportedly accepted Tweets allurement for bitcoin donations for the Prime Ministers National Relief Fund for Covid19 were acquaint on the account
Twitter Account Tied to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Hacked
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cheep annual for his claimed website and adaptable app was afraid on Thursday, Cheep has reportedly confirmed. The afraid annual was for Cheep handle @narendramodi_in, which has about 2.5 actor followers. Modi’s claimed annual with 61.8 actor followers was unaffected.
A alternation of tweets were acquaint on the afraid Modi’s annual for about an hour, allurement bodies to accord bitcoin to the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund for Covid-19. One cheep reads:
The hacker acclimated the pseudonym John Wick, which acceptable refers to the activity cine appearance of the aforementioned name portrayed by Keanu Reeves. It is additionally the alias of a accepted cybercrime group. On Sunday, accident intelligence close Cyble claimed that this accumulation afraid Paytm Mall, the e-commerce exchange addition of Paytm. Cyble declared that the hackers were able to accretion complete admission to Paytm Mall’s absolute database application a backdoor/ Adminer. The aggregation has denied this claim.
Another cheep from the Modi’s afraid annual reads: “I abode to you all to accord abundantly to PM National Relief Fund for Covid-19, now India activate with crypto currency, attentive accord bitcoin to [ETH address] #eth #cryto … Official cheep of PM Modi.” All the tweets fabricated during the annual aperture accept been deleted.
Twitter told several annual outlets that it was acquainted of the aperture and had taken accomplish to defended the compromised account. “We are actively investigating the situation. At this time, we are not acquainted of added accounts actuality impacted,” a backer for the aggregation told Reuters.
In July, the Twitter accounts of abounding high-profile personalities and companies were hacked, including those of Apple, above U.S. admiral Barack Obama, Microsoft architect Bill Gates, Cash App, Spacex and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Floyd Mayweather, Google, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Democratic presidential applicant Joe Biden, Kanye West, above New York City ambassador Mike Bloomberg, and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett.
There has been no adumbration or affirmation of any alternation amid Thursday’s drudge and the massive drudge in July, according to Twitter. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested an declared administrator of the July Twitter hack, the 17-year-old Florida boyhood Graham Ivan Clark. He has pleaded not accusable to all accuse adjoin him.
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