Narendra Modi’s Twitter account hacked with announcement India would adopt Bitcoin

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By Akanksha Sharma, CNN

Narendra Modi’s Twitter account was “very briefly compromised,” his office said, when a tweet was sent from the Indian prime minister’s account saying his country had adopted Bitcoin and would distribute the cryptocurrency.

“The matter was transmitted to Twitter and the account was immediately secured,” the Indian prime minister’s office said in a tweet on Sunday.

“During the brief period that the account has been compromised, any tweet shared should be ignored,” the officials added.

Several Twitter users shared screenshots of the tweet posted from the Indian Prime Minister’s personal Twitter account @narendramodi when he was compromised, according to CNN News-18 affiliate.

The screenshot read: “India has officially accepted bitcoin as legal tender. The government officially bought 500 BTC ”and“ would distribute them to all residents of the country ”.

This tweet has since been deleted. In addition to the tweet, a possible scam link was also attached.

Modi has over 70 million Twitter followers, among the biggest of all the world leaders.

India does not recognize Bitcoin as legal tender.

In September, El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt cryptocurrency as legal tender and last month the country’s president, Nayib Bukele, said he plans to build the world’s first “Bitcoin City”. – initially funded by bonds backed by Bitcoin.

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