<p>Twitter on Thursday confirmed that an account linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal website was hacked by a group that claimed to be John Wick.</p>.<p>Hacker posted series of tweets asking its followers to donate to the Prime Minister's relief fund for<a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/coronavirus" target="_blank"> Covid-19</a> using bitcoins.</p>.<p>The US-based popular micro-blogging site immediately restored the account with handle @narendramodi_in and deleted milicious tweets.</p>.<p>However, Prime Minister's personal Twitter handle remained unaffected by this incident.</p>.<p>"We're aware of this activity and have taken steps to secure the compromised account. We are actively investigating the situation. At this time, we are not aware of additional accounts being impacted. Advice on keeping your account secure can be found," a Twitter spokesperson said.</p>.<p>"This account is hacked by John Wick (hckindia@tutanota.com), We have not hacked Paytm Mall," the message said.</p>.<p>Last week cybersecurity firm Cyble claimed that the hacker group John Wick was behind a "massive" data breach at Paytm Mall. However, Paytm denied it.</p>.<p>In July, hackers broke into the Twitter accounts of popular personalities including politicians, businessmen and technocrats including Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg and Bill Gates.</p>
<p>Twitter on Thursday confirmed that an account linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal website was hacked by a group that claimed to be John Wick.</p>.<p>Hacker posted series of tweets asking its followers to donate to the Prime Minister's relief fund for<a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/coronavirus" target="_blank"> Covid-19</a> using bitcoins.</p>.<p>The US-based popular micro-blogging site immediately restored the account with handle @narendramodi_in and deleted milicious tweets.</p>.<p>However, Prime Minister's personal Twitter handle remained unaffected by this incident.</p>.<p>"We're aware of this activity and have taken steps to secure the compromised account. We are actively investigating the situation. At this time, we are not aware of additional accounts being impacted. Advice on keeping your account secure can be found," a Twitter spokesperson said.</p>.<p>"This account is hacked by John Wick (hckindia@tutanota.com), We have not hacked Paytm Mall," the message said.</p>.<p>Last week cybersecurity firm Cyble claimed that the hacker group John Wick was behind a "massive" data breach at Paytm Mall. However, Paytm denied it.</p>.<p>In July, hackers broke into the Twitter accounts of popular personalities including politicians, businessmen and technocrats including Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg and Bill Gates.</p>
