{"id":325965,"date":"2020-09-03T05:38:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T05:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325965"},"modified":"2020-09-03T06:20:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T06:20:38","slug":"prime-minister-narendra-modis-personal-website-twitter-account-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/prime-minister-narendra-modis-personal-website-twitter-account-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s personal website twitter account hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/pmgkay-extended-free-ration-for-poor-till-november-pm-modi\/modi-12-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-324341\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-324341 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/modi-12-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/modi-12-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/modi-12-768x458.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/modi-12-696x415.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/modi-12-705x420.jpg 705w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/modi-12.jpg 772w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a>The twitter account of Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s personal website &#8216;@narendramodi_in&#8217; was hacked on early Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">In a series of tweets posted on PM Modi&#8217;s personal website twitter account by the hacker, read, &#8220;I appeal to you all to donate generously to PM National Relief Fund for Covid-19, Now India begin with crypto currency, Kindly Donate eth to 0xae073DB1e5752faFF169B1ede7E8E94bF7f80Be6.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;Yes this account is hacked by John Wick (hckindia@tutanota.com), We have not hacked Paytm Mall,&#8221; another tweet from the hacker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The tweets have been taken down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The twitter account &#8216;@narendramodi_in&#8217; is a verified account with more than 2.5 million followers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Twitter in a statement confirmed that the account was hacked and said, &#8220;We\u2019re 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.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The incident comes after several Twitter accounts of prominent personalities were hacked in July including Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The twitter account of Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s personal website &#8216;@narendramodi_in&#8217; was hacked on early Thursday. In a series of tweets posted on PM Modi&#8217;s personal website twitter account by the hacker, read, &#8220;I appeal to you all to donate generously to PM National Relief Fund for Covid-19, Now India begin with crypto currency, Kindly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":324341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[316,13363],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325966,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325965\/revisions\/325966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}