In the early hours of Thursday morning, a Twitter account belonging to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal website was hacked with a series of tweets asking its followers to donate to a relief fund through cryptocurrency.
The account which has over 2.5 million followers is the official Twitter handle for Modi’s personal website as well as the Narendra Modi mobile application.
“We are actively investigating the situation. At this time, we are not aware of additional accounts being impacted,” a Twitter spokeswoman said in an emailed statement.
Modi’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the tweets posted on the account @narendramodi_in.
The tweets, which have since been taken down, asked the followers to donate to the PM National Relief Fund through cryptocurrency.
Several screenshots of the tweets, went viral and one thing stood out: The hacker identified himself as ‘John Wick.’
PM Narendra Modi's personal website's twitter account @narendramodi_in has been hacked by a hacker claiming to be John Wick hckindia@tutanota.com
4 tweets have been tweeted by the hacker asking to donate to PM Relief fund via crypto currency!#Hacked pic.twitter.com/zRVmPdh2d1— Tech Takneek (@TechTakneek) September 3, 2020
PM Modi's Twitter account hacked.
🙄😕 Bitcoin? John Wick? Paytm Mall?screenshots source: twitter pic.twitter.com/gj4E2Oai5z
— Irfan (@simplyirfan) September 2, 2020
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