Another government agency’s Twitter account targetted
The India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) official Twitter handle was hacked for a brief amount of time during which a tweet promoting an NFT scam was posted by the hacker(s). After a few hours, the account which has 246.6k followers was restored.
Official Twitter Account (@Indiametdept) of India Meteorological Department was hacked in the evening today, the 09/04/2022. It has now been restored. pic.twitter.com/0WGYWMm1DK
— India Meteorological Department (@Indiametdept) April 9, 2022
This incident is the latest in a string of prominent government-handled Twitter accounts being hacked.
Read: How To Protect Your Organisation’s Social Media Accounts From Hackers?
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