PM Modi Website Account and Twitter Hacked

    The Twitter account of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal website and mobile app was hacked early this morning, the social media giant has confirmed. Twitter said that it has taken "Steps to secure the compromised account" and is "actively investigating" the situation

The account reportedly sent out tweets asking its followers to donate to the PM National Relief Fund through Cryptocurrency.

The account goes by the handle narendramodi and has 2.5 million followers and over 37,000 tweets since it was created in May 2011

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 begin impacted, a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement.

The last tweet from PM account was on August 31st The tweet has quote of PM Modi monthly radio program "Mann ki baat" Regular update from the speeches and other programmers and tweeted from PM Account

The incident comes after several Twitter accounts of prominent personalities were hacked in July 

Hackers had in July Accessed Twitter's internal systems to hijack some of the platforms's top voices including US presidential condiate joe Biden, Former US President Barack Obama, billionaire Elon musk, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and used them to solicit digital currency

The tweet clearly shows this account is hacked by John Wick we have not hacked Paytm Mall

On August 30, cyber-security firm Cyble had said hacker group 'John Wick' was behind a data breach at Paytm Mall, the e-commerce unit of Paytm. Paytm Mall had said it had not found any security lapse after investigating claims of a possible hack and data breach

Hackers in July had accessed Twitter's Internal System to hijack some of the platforms high profile user to know more click here about Tycoons account hack

Twitter: What actually went wrong?

    There are lot of unanswered question about the Twitter hack on Wednesday night - But one thing most agree on is it could have been far worse 

Potentially thousands of people were scammed out of money after hijacked accounts of prominent verified user promised to double the money fans sent them in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin.

Using Twitter's internal systems, the cyber-criminals messages had a reach of at least 350 million people.

And it looks like it made them about $110,000 in the few hours that the scam was active.

Huge Engagement

    It was an unprecedented attack on privacy, trust and security but experts says the hacker could have caused far more damage as the boss of smaller messaging service put it: "Thank God for greed."

Twitter has huge engagement in the US, Japan, Russia and the UK