Hackers Took Over Indian PM Modi’s Twitter Account To Promote BTC Scam

India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi’s Twitter account was briefly taken over by hackers and used to spread false rumor and promote a bitcoin giveaway scam. 

The hackers tweeted through Modi’s account to his over 73 million followers that India had declared bitcoin legal tender and was conducting a giveaway to celebrate the move.

The prime minister’s office later said via its own Twitter account that Modi’s account was “briefly compromised” and was later secured.

“The Twitter handle of PM @narendramodi was very briefly compromised. The matter was escalated to Twitter and the account has been immediately secured. In the brief period that the account was compromised, any Tweet shared must be ignored.”

This is not the first incident that an official Twitter account has been compromised to promote a crypto giveaway scam. Back in 2020, accounts of people such as Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Barack Obama, and so forth, all had their handles hacked.