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Hackers take over the Indian Prime Minister’s Twitter account and claim Bitcoin as legal currency

This morning the Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi “announced” that the country has accepted Bitcoin as legal currency. Amidst surprise and delight, PMO announced that the Prime Minister’s account had been hacked.

At around 2:00 am on December 12th, Prime Minister Modi tweeted that the Indian government not only accepted Bitcoin as legal currency, but also bought 500 BTC to “distribute” it to everyone in the country.

The tweet in question also links to a blog post with a postscript that says, “The future is here”.

Source: Twitter

An hour later, a tweet another was presented by the official PMO account claiming the account was “compromised” and any tweets shared during that compromised time were untrue.

The account has now been restored and the malicious tweets have been removed. However, screenshots of the tweet are currently going viral on Twitter, even as the social media platform investigates the matter.

Interestingly, this isn’t the first time PM Modi’s account has been hacked by crypto advocates. In early September 2020, an account linked to the Prime Minister’s personal website and app sent tweets asking them to contribute to the Covid Relief Fund via cryptocurrency.

Other notable figures who have also been hacked include former US President Barack Obama, current US President Joe Biden, Kanye West, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, and Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk. Her account was hacked last July and the tweet was sent claiming that if people send bitcoins to a certain link, they will get duplicate.

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