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Indian Information & Broadcasting Ministry's Twitter Account Hacked, Renamed 'Elon Musk'

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On 12 December 2021, the personal Twitter handle of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was briefly hacked and started promoting cryptocurrency, sparking a social media uproar. On 3 January, Twitter accounts of the Indian Council of World Affairs, Indian Medical Association and many others were hacked and renamed 'Elon Musk'.

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Netizens were shocked on Wednesday to discover the Twitter account of India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting had been hacked and renamed 'Elon Musk'. The hackers not only changed the display picture of the ministry's Twitter handle to one showing a spacecraft in the air; they went on to comment "great job" on various posts and also tweeted some malicious links.The ministry, however, regained control of the account in some time, restored the profile picture and deleted the tweets posted by the hackers. While netizens praised the ministry's IT team for regaining control over the situation, some others remarked that the hackers appeared to have been inspired by Elon Musk, the famous industrialist who co-founded Tesla Motors and founded SpaceX. Many others pointed to the growing trend of government sites being hacked.

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Indian Information & Broadcasting Ministry's Twitter Account Hacked, Renamed 'Elon Musk'

10:37 GMT 12.01.2022 (Updated: 20:13 GMT 19.10.2022)

© AP Photo / Matt RourkeElon Musk walks from the the justice center in Wilmington, Del., Monday, July 12, 2021. Musk took to a witness stand Monday to defend his company's 2016 acquisition of a troubled company called SolarCity against a shareholder lawsuit that claims he's to blame for a deal that was rife with conflicts of interest and never delivered the profits he had promised.

Elon Musk walks from the the justice center in Wilmington, Del., Monday, July 12, 2021. Musk took to a witness stand Monday to defend his company's 2016 acquisition of a troubled company called SolarCity against a shareholder lawsuit that claims he's to blame for a deal that was rife with conflicts of interest and never delivered the profits he had promised. - Sputnik International, 1920, 12.01.2022

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Netizens were shocked on Wednesday to discover the Twitter account of India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting had been hacked and renamed 'Elon Musk'.

The hackers not only changed the display picture of the ministry's Twitter handle to one showing a spacecraft in the air; they went on to comment "great job" on various posts and also tweeted some malicious links.

It seems the official Twitter handle of the I&B Ministry @MIB_India was hacked temporarily. Renamed after billionaire Elon Musk, with a number of what appear to be spam tweets. pic.twitter.com/q1GG7ZTwi1
— Krishn Kaushik (@Krishn_) January 12, 2022

The ministry, however, regained control of the account in some time, restored the profile picture and deleted the tweets posted by the hackers.

While netizens praised the ministry's IT team for regaining control over the situation, some others remarked that the hackers appeared to have been inspired by Elon Musk, the famous industrialist who co-founded Tesla Motors and founded SpaceX.

Many others pointed to the growing trend of government sites being hacked.

The account @Mib_india has been restored. This is for the information of all the followers.
— Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (@MIB_India) January 12, 2022

Shortly after the account was compromised, ministry tweets it has been restored. This comes barely a month after PM Modi's twitter account was hacked and a tweet claiming that bitcoin was legal tender in India was posted. https://t.co/FqMidJQXL9
— Deeksha Bhardwaj (@deekbhardwaj) January 12, 2022

#Breaking: Official Twitter account of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has been hacked.

The name of the handle was changed to guise itself as #ElonMusk and a number of suspicious tweets were generated by the hacked account.

Attempts being made to recover the account. pic.twitter.com/elLzANZMeO
— Mohit Sharma (@iMohit_Sharma) January 12, 2022