Recently, PM Narendra Modi’s Twitter account (narendramodi.in) had posted a series of tweets related to bitcoin. The account has more than 2.5 million followers.
“I appeal to you all to donate generously to PM National Relief Fund for Covid-19, Now India begin with crypto currency, Kindly Donate eth to 0xae073DB1e5752faFF169B1ede7E8E94bF7f80Be6.”
“This account is hacked by John Wick (hckindia@tutanota.com), We have not hacked Paytm Mall,” another bogus tweet read.
Another read- “I appeal to you all to donate generously to PM National Relief Fund for Covid-19, Now India begin with crypto currency, Kindly Donate Bitcoin to 0xae073DB1e5752faFF169B1ede7E8E94bF7f80Be6 #eth #crypto – Official Tweet of PM Modi”.
Now, Twitter spokeswoman told in the Email conversation to Reuters that PM Modi’s account was hacked.
“We are actively investigating the situation. At this time, we are not aware of additional accounts being impacted,” she added.
On August 30, cybersecurity firm Cyble had claimed hacker group John Wick was behind a “massive” data breach at Paytm Mall, the e-commerce arm of unicorn Paytm.
Cyble had claimed the hacker group had also demanded ransom, as it had got unrestricted access to the firm’s database. Paytm had, however, said it had not found any data breach during an investigation.
Recently, the verified accounts of multiple leaders including Joe Biden, Barack Obama were hacked by a few people who promoted bitcoins.
It is to be noted that right after the security breach, the India’s cyber security nodal agency CERT-In had, in July, issued notice to Twitter asking the micro-blogging platform for full details of the global hack targeting high-profile users.
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