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Indian Prime Minister's twitter hacked by crypto scammers

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Dec 12, 2021
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Twitter account was hacked on Sunday, for the second time in the past year.

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After gaining access to the account, which has over 73 million followers, the hacker quickly tweeted that India had adopted bitcoin as legal tender and that the government had bought 500 bitcoin and was “distributing them to all residents of the country", along with a scam link.

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Not long after the tweet was deleted and it was confirmed that the account was compromised.

Twitter avatar for @PMOIndiaPMO India @PMOIndia
The Twitter handle of PM @narendramodi was very briefly compromised. The matter was escalated to Twitter and the account has been immediately secured. In the brief period that the account was compromised, any Tweet shared must be ignored.

December 11th 2021

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The tweet comes as the Indian government is planning to regulate cryptocurrencies and maybe even introduce a complete ban, making the fake announcement as unbelievable as it gets.

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