Twitter Account Of I&B Ministry Hacked, Renamed ‘Elon Musk’

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.

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.

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.

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