Bollywood stars love to stay connected with their fans on social media and is quite active on Twitter. However, in recent alarming circumstances the Twitter accounts of many notable celebrities like Anupam Kher, Nimrat Kaur, Pritish Nandy, Kiran Bedi have been hacked by what seems like Pakistani hackers.
Following this, Anupam Kher was notified at 1 am today, in Los Angeles about the breach. The tweets were in Turkish followed by “I Love Pakistan.” Twitter was prompt to address the issue and Kher soon got his account back. He tweeted,
He also posted this message for the hackers who broke into his account and posted Pro-Pak messages.
Unfortunately, all is still not well on Twitterville as the latest target for the hackers is none other than Junior Bachchan. Yes, that’s right. Abhishek Bachchan’s Twitter at the moment is flooded with tweets resembling those of the other celebrities. They even changed his Twitter banner.
His Twitter also contains the screenshots of the accounts which have already been hacked with the message, “I Love Pakistan”. In addition to this, the blue verified mark on the celebrity’s account has disappeared.
According to the tweets, some information has also been obtained by the hackers, the purposes of which are unknown.
They also posted Anupam Kher’s account which has now been recovered.
It’s unclear what they want Nimrat to address as no further information has been given.
These are some of the messages that were posted on the actor’s Twitter.
Why they chose to hack the accounts of Indian celebrities, is unknown.
As of now, all the tweets have been deleted from Abhishek’s account. It does seem like he has got his account back. However, the sheer number of accounts that were hacked raise a huge question over the security policies of the micro-blogging site.