In the wee hours of the morning, a bunch of attackers, identifying themselves as John Wick, took over a Twitter account linked to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modis website. The account, which is separate from the PMs official one, has more than 2.5 million
However, hackers wanted to do nothing with the account. They told me that it was just to squash a recent report that alleged the group had hacked Paytm Mall, a local ecommerce outlet. Paytm Mall denied any breach
The hackers also mentioned that the PMs site, narendramodi.in, is riddled with bugs, and that they wanted to get in touch with its admins to sort these out.
In tweets from the breached account, the group also asked followers to donate money to a Bitcoin wallet, saying the money would go towards PM National relief fund for COVID-19. These tweets were deleted and the account was soon restored by Twitter.
#NarendraModiPM Twitter account hack
Narendra modi Twitter account Hacked pic.twitter.com/qpfj37YU9r
Tejas jadhav (@Tejasja01960547) September 3, 2020
Twitter acknowledged the hack and added that it found no connection between this hack and the notorious hack of July that saw attackers take over accounts of Bill Gates and Elon Musk.
In a statement, the company said its investigating if other accounts were impacted:
Were aware of this activity and have taken steps to secure the compromised account. We are actively investigating the situation. At this time, we are not aware of additional accounts being impacted.
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