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On Saturday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Twitter account was hacked, and a tweet supporting a bitcoin fraud was posted there.
The tweet reads:
“India has officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender. The government has officially bought 500 BTC and is distributing them to all residents in the country.”
A link to a website advocating a bitcoin giveaway fraud was also included in the tweet. The fake webpage on blogspot.com has been taken down as of this writing.
Prime Minister Modi's account was quickly reinstated, and the tweet on the bitcoin scam was removed.
The official account for the Office of the Prime Minister of India then announced on Twitter that the Twitter handle for Prime Minister Modi “was very briefly compromised.” It added that “The matter was escalated to Twitter and the account has been immediately secured. In the brief period that the account was compromised, any tweet shared must be ignored.”