AFTER CM YOGI , NOW UP GOVERNMENT’S OFFICIAL TWITTER ACCOUNT HACKED
(The Quiver Bureau ) : Cyber hackers seems have taken UP government into target, days after Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s official Twitter account was hacked , now the state governments ‘s official twitter is targeted on Monday. A series of random posts could be seen on the feed. The account got restored later.
The fake tweet stated , “In celebration for the reveal of the Beanz Official Collection, we have opened up an airdrop to all active NFT traders in the community for the next 24 hours! Claim your beanz. Take the red bean fren.”
In subsequent tweets, a number of random accounts were tagged.
Earlier , the Punjab Congress’s Twitter handle had also put out multiple posts, tagging random users, after hackers took over. The account has over 184 thousand followers. A post that was pinned – with a GIF image – read: “In celebration for the reveal of the Beanz Official Collection, we have opened up an airdrop to all active NFT traders in the community for the next 24 hours! Claim Your Beanz (sic).” Same post was seen on the @UPGovt handle too with 2.7 million followers.
After the UP CMO official Twitter was taken over by hackers, more than 400-500 tweets were made from the account. On Saturday, the official twitter handle of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi adityanath’s posted random tweets ,the hackers had also removed the Chief Minister’s display picture from the Twitter handle.
. “An attempt was made to hack the official Twitter account @CMOfficeUP of the Chief Minister’s Office on April 09 at 12:30 am by anti-social elements, who had posted some tweets which were recovered immediately. (sic)”, a statement by the state government read.
An FIR was registered in this regard against unknown persons under relevant sections of the IT Act at the cyber police station in Lucknow.
The cyber crimes have now became a matter of serious concern.