“My social media account has been hacked!”
You might have heard a lot of people, including several prominent personalities like Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Anupam Kher among others complain that their accounts have been compromised.
However, when the Twitter handle of a country’s Prime Minister gets hacked by miscreants, it raises concern over the security features of these social media sites.
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According to Hindustan Times, Twitter account @narendramodi_in, linked to the personal website of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was recently taken over by hackers.
Confirming this, a spokesperson from Twitter in an email said to Hindustan Times, “We’re aware of this activity and have taken steps to secure the compromised account. We are actively investigating the situation. At this time, we are not aware of additional accounts being impacted.”
Multiple random tweets from the said account were also allegedly posted by the miscreant this morning asking people to donate cryptocurrency, reported ABP News.
One of the tweets also claimed that the account has been hacked by John Wick.
Twitter account of PM Modi's personal website hacked
Read @ANI Story | https://t.co/NYZhitc50c pic.twitter.com/V7Wpa6H4c4
— ANI Digital (@ani_digital) September 3, 2020
A report by The Hindu indicated that a cybersecurity firm had said that a hacker group that goes by the name ‘John Wick’ had also breached the security system of Paytm Mall.
After reports of the hacking came into light, people, especially PUBG lovers, took to Twitter and posted hilarious memes venting out their frustration after the Ministry of Information & Technology blocked 118 mobile apps including the gaming app yesterday.
Take a look:
#Hacked
Narendra modi Twitter got hacked
Meanwhile : pic.twitter.com/5XV7F5V9RP— Ankit Pandey (@thesarcstictale) September 3, 2020
Modiji's twitter account and website #Hacked
Meanwhile PUBG players pic.twitter.com/7z1hE0Grcm— Nafees Ahmad (@nafees722) September 3, 2020
PM's personal website and twitter #Hacked pic.twitter.com/J0iqv677E5
— Aditya Ban (@emAditya_) September 3, 2020
Pm modi's personal twitter account hacked #Hacked
Hacker's to modiji :- pic.twitter.com/dEA7cJEU8P
— Rahul Sharma (@RahulSharama22) September 3, 2020
#Hacked
Hackers were asking for crypto currencymeanwhile modiji😜👇 pic.twitter.com/j78URsCj6n
— Amar Deep (@AmarDee82534833) September 3, 2020
1. 1M dislike on Mann ki baat
2. #Hacked website account
*Meanwhile modiji to indians: pic.twitter.com/wDILHG9r7L— Kota wali chai ❁ (@Kotawalichai) September 3, 2020
PM Modi going to Twitter's office after his Twitter Account Hacked
🤣🤣🤣🤣💯🤟#Hacked pic.twitter.com/UMe3m8v8oo— Siddhant Mantri (@MantriSiddhant) September 3, 2020
By the way it was tribute to john wick (revees?) #Hacked, me to modi ji 😊 pic.twitter.com/2uK0q117Ym
— K(Karma)! (@KarmaWch) September 3, 2020
Modi Ji's twitter account is #Hacked .
PUBG lovers to Hacker.. pic.twitter.com/JadlQFpVLo
— UMANG (@cricktomania) September 3, 2020
Security on Modiji's twitter account.
#Hacked pic.twitter.com/wdPv9v5SuQ— Rohit (@backpack_nomad) September 3, 2020
#Hacked #pubgban #Chineseappbanned
Pubg addict asking government for any other options 😂😂😂😂
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 pic.twitter.com/CiasD43fDe
— Anshul Tiwari 🇮🇳 (@AnshulT9999) September 3, 2020
Hacker was asking for Crypto Currency
Meanwhile indians who does not even know about it pic.twitter.com/FAuFMBmB9j
— Nishant Rajvanshi (@NishantRajvans8) September 3, 2020
#Hacked
Hacker calling himself as JohnWick, hacks #NarendraModi twitter
Meanwhile John Wick:- pic.twitter.com/dnzZvobOra— Sapra Bimal (@BimalSapra) September 3, 2020
Even though the hackers were successful in taking over the Twitter account of PM Modi’s personal website, it was soon restored and the bogus tweets have been taken down.
Well, it’s time social media platforms put an indestructible security wall to protect the privacy of the users.