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In an interesting turn of events, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting’s official Twitter account was hacked and renamed after World richest man ‘Elon Musk’ by hackers on Wednesday. Yes, you heard it right. While the officials tried their best to restore the handle as soon as possible, it took them some time to fix the issue. And within that period, the hackers had flooded the internet with a series of malicious links shared from MIB’s official Twitter handle. “The account @Mib_india has been restored. This is for the information of all the followers,” the ministry tweeted after recovering.
The account @Mib_india has been restored. This is for the information of all the followers.
— Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (@MIB_India) January 12, 2022
While the ministry did their best and tried to resolve the issue and delete the slurry of wrong tweets from the handle within no time, several Twitter users had taken screenshots of the hacker’s wrongdoings by then. From sharing suggestions on creating a strong password to expressing concern, the internet was flooded with tweets related to the incident. Check out a few reactions here:
The MIB handle was hacked today for a brief period. Not sure why the hackers always love Elon Musk!! 🤔 pic.twitter.com/bxLgMvdfUQ
— Manas Muduli🇮🇳 (@manas_muduli) January 12, 2022
Hackers strike again. This time hack @MIB_india.
Can the government plz take some basic steps to ensure security of the verified twitter handles? pic.twitter.com/aRJwxq1zmM
— Ankit Lal 🏹 (@AnkitLal) January 12, 2022
When the account of the government itself is not safe in Digital India, then what can happen to normal person like us, is this Digital India??
— फलनवा छौड़ा ( झारखण्डी ) (@EXBABUSONA2) January 12, 2022
Set a very difficult password. 🙏
— პრამოდი 🇮🇳 (@aumpramod) January 12, 2022
While a series of similar incidents have happened in the recent past, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter handle was also hacked for a few minutes last month. But as soon as it was restored, the PMO handle posted a tweet that read, “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.”
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 (@PMOIndia) December 11, 2021
Meanwhile, in the brief period, the hackers had shared a tweet related to bitcoin claiming that India has officially adopted the cryptocurrency as a legal tender.
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