New Delhi: The Twitter account of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) was briefly compromised on Wednesday morning.
The account, however, was restored after a few minutes, Senior Adviser, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Kanchan Gupta informed.
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The account @Mib_india was compromised for a brief while. It has been restored.— Kanchan Gupta ?? (@KanchanGupta) January 12, 2022
The hackers had renamed the account as ‘Elon Musk’ and started tweeting “great job”. The Ministry later restored the profile picture and deleted the tweets posted by the hackers.
It seems the official Twitter handle of the I&B Ministry @MIB_India was hacked temporarily. Renamed after billionaire Elon Musk, with a number of what appear to be spam tweets. pic.twitter.com/q1GG7ZTwi1
— Krishn Kaushik (@Krishn_) January 12, 2022
The hackers even posted some malicious links from it, the India Today reported.
This came a month after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal Twitter account was briefly compromised.
