The Prime Minister’s own Twitter handle was hacked in December. This week the official Twitter handle of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting was also found to have been hacked.
While the PM’s handle was used to promote a Crypto currency, Bitcoin, when speculation was rife that the Government would introduce legislation in Parliament to regulate crypto currencies (it didn’t), hackers renamed the I & B Ministry’s official handle ‘Elon Musk’.
But typically, the Government has not reacted to the breach. No explanation has been offered on how the breach occurred and if any attempt has been made to track the culprits. The Government’s silence therefore on allegations of large-scale digital manipulation by using a ‘private app’ Tek Fog made following an investigation by digital news portal The Wire has come as no surprise.
The investigation, however, drew attention internationally but the experts did not evince any surprise.
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