In a shocking incident, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi Twitter account was hacked today. Even though it was hacked for a brief amount of time, it shows the ebbs and flows of Twitter. The matter was reported to Twitter on an urgent basis and now things have been under control.
On December 12, at 2:11 am, Modi’s Twitter account put out a tweet saying India had officially adopted Bitcoin as a legal tender, and that the government had bought 500 bitcoins, which it was “distributing” to all residents of the country. The said tweet also had a link to a blog, which a postscript that said “The future has come today”.
Sources at the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said that the Indian Computer Emergency Response System (Cert-In) would launch a “full-scale investigation headed by a senior official” and will submit its report to the ministry soon.
