NEW DELHI: Twitter on Thursday mentioned the account linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s private web site was hacked, and it has now been restored.

“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. Advice on keeping your account secure can be found here,” a Twitter spokesperson mentioned in an emailed assertion.

The compromised account has about 2.5 million followers.

After hacking the @narendramodi_in Twitter account, which is the Prime Minister’s private web site, the cybercriminal reportedly despatched out posts in search of donations for the PM National Relief Fund for COVID-19 utilizing crypto foreign money.

“Yes, this account is hacked by John Wick (hckindia@tutanota.com), We have not hacked Paytm Mall,” one other message had mentioned.

On August 30, cybersecurity agency Cyble had mentioned hacker group ‘John Wick’ was behind a knowledge breach at Paytm Mall, the e-commerce unit of Paytm.

Paytm Mall had mentioned it had not discovered any safety lapses after investigating claims of a attainable hack and information breach.

Twitter on Thursday additionally mentioned as per its investigation, the most recent assault was not resulting from a compromise of Twitter’s methods or service.

There isn’t any indication or proof of any correlation between this account compromise and the incident that occurred in July, it mentioned.

Accounts of high-profile customers like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos and others had been compromised on July 15.

In an replace on its weblog on July 30, Twitter had mentioned attackers had used credentials of some staff to entry its inner methods and achieve details about its processes.

The attackers focused 130 Twitter accounts, in the end Tweeting from 45, accessing the DM inbox of 36, and downloading the Twitter Data of seven accounts, it had mentioned.

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