The Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal website and mobile app was hacked this morning. The social media platform, while confirming this, said it "has taken steps to secure the compromised account and is "actively investigating" the situation." This incident follows the hacking of several prominent Twitter accounts in July of this year. Modi's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the tweets posted to the @narendramodi_in account. The account, with more than 2,5 million subscribers, is the official Twitter handle for Modi's personal website (www.narendramodi.in) and the Narendra Modi mobile app. Modi's personal Twitter account, @narendramodi, which was not affected by the incident, has more than 61 million followers.
The trick
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(Image credit: Twitter) Today at 3:09am IST (Sep 3, 2020), a series of tweets were posted from the Twitter account @narendramodi_in. The tweets were deleted an hour later at around 4:05 a.m. In the first tweet, the hacker asked followers of the Twitter account to make a generous donation to the PM National Relief Fund for Covid-19 and claimed that the Indian government accepts donations through Bitcoin.
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(Image credit: Twitter) In the latest tweet posted at around 3:16 am, the hacker group 'John Wick' took responsibility for hacking the account.
Band of 'John Wick' in the center
Recently, Paytm Mall, Paytm's e-commerce marketplace wing, was allegedly hacked, according to risk intelligence platform Cyble, by the same group calling itself "John Wick." However, in a series of tweets, 'John Wick' claimed that he did not hack PayTM Mall. In July, hackers turned to Twitter's internal systems to hijack some of the biggest names on the platform, including the US presidential candidate Joe Biden, former US President Barack Obama and billionaire Elon Musk, and had used them to solicit digital currency. Twitter believes that a targeted spear-phishing attack allowed hackers to gain access to its internal systems on July 15, leading to the compromise of several high-profile accounts.