Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Twitter account got hacked in the early hours on Sunday, 12 December, his office said after someone posted a Bitcoin giveaway link from it.“The Twitter handle of PM @Narendramodi was very briefly compromised. The matter was escalated to Twitter and the account has been immediately secured,PMO India wrote it in a tweet.At the when the Prime Minister account got hacked, a URL was shared on the PM's personal account, along with a Tweet that read:“India has officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender. The government has officially bought 500 BTC and is distributing them to all residents of the country.”According to the screenshots that are since circulating on social media, the account had tweeted the giveaway link twice.Action was immediately taken after the information got served to to the PMO, but, unfortunately, not before Twitter was flooded with reactions of shock and disbelief, with the hashtag 'Hacked' trending on social media.The central government is continuously working on implementing the policies for regulating the cryptocurrency in the country, for which it will likely to propose a bill in the parliament for further recommendations.Source: The Quint
