Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s Twitter account was hacked on Saturday. The hacking of the Twitter account got here to gentle because the profile photograph of the UP CMO account was modified to a cartoonist monkey and the put up was revealed on a tutorial known as “Easy methods to flip your BAYC/MAYC animated on Twitter”.
The unidentified hackers additionally posted a thread of some random tweets on the UP CMO account.
Nevertheless, the account has now been restored. The UP CMO has 4 million followers on the microblogging website.
Earlier, hackers had additionally had Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter account hacked final 12 months in December. The hackers had put out a tweet from PM’s Twitter deal with claiming that India has “formally adopted bitcoin as authorized tender”. Sharing a hyperlink and asking folks to “hurry up”, the hackers wrote, “The federal government has formally purchased 500 BTC and is distributing them to all residents of the nation”.
Supply: Live Mint