PM Modi’s Twitter account ‘briefly compromised’

PM Modi’s personal Twitter account was hacked for a brief period during the early hours of Sunday, prompting the Centre’s cyber security wing CERT to order a high-level inquiry into the incident that follows a similar breach in September last year where an account linked to the PM’s personal website was compromised.
The latest incident saw the hackers put out a tweet from the PM’s Twitter handle – that has over 73.4 million followers – claiming that India has “officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender”. Sharing a link and asking people to “hurry up”, the Tweet added, “The government has officially bought 500 BTC and is distributing them to all residents of the country”.
No sooner had the hack been noticed than the government sprung into action, writing to Twitter about the incident and asking users to ignore the tweet. The first official info about the breach was sent out through the PM’s official Twitter account (@PMOIndia): “The Twitter handle of PM @narendramodi was very briefly compromised. The matter was escalated to Twitter and the account was immediately secured. In the brief period that the account was compromised, any Tweet shared must be ignored”.
When contacted, a spokesperson for Twitter said that the account was "secured" the moment they were made aware of the hack. "We have 24x7 open lines of communication with the PM’s Office and our teams took necessary steps to secure the compromised account as soon as we became aware of this activity. Our investigation has revealed that there are no signs of any other impacted accounts at this time."