On Thursday, Indian National Congress’s Twitter account appeared to have been hacked a day after the twitter account of the vice-president Rahul Gandhi account was hacked on Wednesday night around 8 PM.
The events unfolded after Rahul Gandhi’s account, @OfficeofRG, tweeted, “To every one of you haters out there. I love all of you. You’re beautiful. Your hatred just doesn’t let you see it yet.”
The Ministry of Information Technology said that it has ordered a probe into the hacking of verified twitter account of congress vice president Rahul Gandhi.
After the order from the Ministry of Information Technology, Delhi Police has started probing into the hacking of twitter account of congress vice president Rahul Gandhi. Delhi Police has written to the management of the social media site Twitter seeking necessary details.
The senior police officer said that we have written to Twitter to provide us details such as the IP address of the hackers. We have started investigating the matter.
The hackers posted abusive tweets and bizarre advice.
One tweet claimed that coming up is a full dump of inc.in Congress emails, stay tuned for Christmas special. We have enough info to drop your party down to shreds.
On Thursday, All the abusive tweets were later deleted around 10:45 am.
On Wednesday night, the Twitter account of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi was hacked and some expletives-laden tweets were posted.
Congress party raised questions on the digital safety of all Indians after the hacking of the twitter account. Congress said that it reflects disturbing insecurities of the prevalent fascist culture in the country.
The twitter account of Rahul Gandhi was hacked around 8:45 pm on Wednesday. Some messages with profanities were put out, but these were deleted soon thereafter. The name of the verified Twitter handle “@OfficeOfRG” was also changed to ‘Retarded Gandhi’.
Chief spokesperson of Congress – Randeep Surjewala said that such lowly tactics will neither drown the sane voice of reason nor deter Rahul Gandhi from raising people’s issues.
On Thursday, the congress party said that we will raise the issue of hacking of twitter accounts of congress party and Rahul Gandhi in both the Houses of Parliament when the session begins on Thursday.
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