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Another Twitter Hack: This Time, India’s Modi Targeted

Account associated with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was hacked for an apparent cryptocurrency scam. The account, @narendramodi_in, has about 2.5 million followers and is associated with Modi’s personal website. A series of fraudulent tweets sent from the verified account for about an hour on Thursday asked followers to send cryptocurrency donations to an organization called the “PM National Relief Fund” The tweets falsely said the owners of the accounts would send double the number of bitcoins back to accounts that sent in cryptocurrency.”]

Source: https://www.inforisktoday.com/another-twitter-hack-this-time-indias-modi-targeted-a-14944

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