Indian Prime Minister Promoting Bitcoins Giveaway

[JohnBitCo]

I was shocked to see that the Indian prime minister announced bitcoin as a legal tender in India and also giving away free bitcoin but to my disappointment it was done after his account was hacked.

PM Modi’s Twitter handle ‘briefly compromised’, bitcoin giveaway link shared

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[Charles-Tim]

The official Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was hacked in order for the hackers to scam people.

Soon after Modi's Twitter account with over 73.4 million followers got hacked, attackers shared misleading information about the mainstream adoption of Bitcoin and a 500 BTC giveaway.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/indian-prime-minister-modi-s-hacked-twitter-account-attempts-btc-scam

While the hack happened at midnight in India (around 4:00 pm ET), Twitter user Priya was among the many crypto enthusiasts that took notice of the untimely 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. The future has come today!”

The post also included a link that urged unwary investors to sign up and claim their share of the BTC giveaway. However, this was the second time Modi’s Twitter account got hacked and was used for crypto scams.

A possible means to scam.

[noormcs5]

The official Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was hacked in order for the hackers to scam people.

How come his twitter account get hacks and that too for the 2nd time ?
The prime minister twitter account should have the highest possible security and password  standards. This is something which should not be ignored.

Any idea who hacked the account 

[Charles-Tim]

How come his twitter account get hacks and that too for the 2nd time ?

Careless online activities.

Any idea who hacked the account 

Probably under investigation, but likely not going to be known because hackers know how to remain anonymous.

[Lucius]

How come his twitter account get hacks and that too for the 2nd time ?
The prime minister twitter account should have the highest possible security and password  standards. This is something which should not be ignored.

When a large number of Twitter accounts of celebrities were hacked in the past, if I'm not mistaken, it was that the hacker managed to enter the system by posing as an employee, and exploited some vulnerabilities, and thus hack the accounts. So it is possible that it is also a job from the inside, because only one employee with bad intentions is enough to do great damage.

Given India's attitude towards cryptocurrencies, I would not believe this, especially if it was published on Twitter - people should be much smarter.

[Jating]

The official Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was hacked in order for the hackers to scam people.

How come his twitter account get hacks and that too for the 2nd time ?
The prime minister twitter account should have the highest possible security and password  standards. This is something which should not be ignored.

Any idea who hacked the account 

Just like you and me, any twitter account is vulnerable to such attacks.

Hackers are everywhere, maybe they are really targeting certain high profile individuals or it could be that someone is colluding itself twitter or maybe twitter itself was compromised, or maybe poor security practice on whoever handles the PM account. There's a lot of reasons really and it's hard to pinpoint the exact one.

Hopefully though no one falls for this fake and scam bitcoin giveaways.

[newIndia]

https://i.imgur.com/ax9RJGY.png

I was shocked to see that the Indian prime minister announced bitcoin as a legal tender in India and also giving away free bitcoin but to my disappointment it was done after his account was hacked.

PM Modi’s Twitter handle ‘briefly compromised’, bitcoin giveaway link shared

Misleading title. Account was compromised. PMO account tweeted it within an hour.

https://twitter.com/PMOIndia/status/1469786236990607361

[Oasisman]

I don't know how these hackers gained access to the accounts of people in the high ranking of the society. I remember it also happens to some of the celebrities Twitter accounts. This is something that needs to be focused on for all the social media platforms.
This kind of Tweets will somehow teach the people not to trust immediately especially If it happens like out of the blues without any previous Tweets about these.

[cheezcarls]

I don't know how these hackers gained access to the accounts of people in the high ranking of the society. I remember it also happens to some of the celebrities Twitter accounts. This is something that needs to be focused on for all the social media platforms.
This kind of Tweets will somehow teach the people not to trust immediately especially If it happens like out of the blues without any previous Tweets about these.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it may be probably another “inside job” like what happened before to the Twitter account of Elon Musk and other well-known celebrities several months ago. Followers will easily be deceived as the  scam tweet comes from the original account himself and yes this is very bad.

[UserU]

The moment I saw the giveaway, I had a feeling it's a scam. True enough the URL in the image says it all.

I don't know how these hackers gained access to the accounts of people in the high ranking of the society. I remember it also happens to some of the celebrities Twitter accounts. This is something that needs to be focused on for all the social media platforms.
This kind of Tweets will somehow teach the people not to trust immediately especially If it happens like out of the blues without any previous Tweets about these.

Usually a verified account is hijacked and switched to some (controversial) influencer bearing the checkmark icon. For example, a verified community falls victim and the hacker changes the name + profile picture to be of Elon Musk. The most obvious giveaway would be the handle which is anything but @elonmusk himself.

This one is a little less common.

[The Cryptovator]

I thought it was an edited Telegram message in first look but after realized the account was hacked. However, just wondering how strong are hackers, it's quite dangerous hacking the Twitter account of the Prime Minister especially in a big country like India. Even it's possible to begin a war Lol. Not sure how many people fell into this trap due to hacking, but if I notice such a tweet from our Prime Minister then it will be shocking news for me. I won't believe they are giving away Bitcoin this way. Bitcoin giveaway should like El Salvador, so I would believe. This was a very old scam technic that the hacker applied here. If you aren't greedy, then you don't have to be worried.

[Uang_kartal]

That's a big amount bro (500 bitcoin) with currency conversion in India, of course different countries have different values,
my condolences.!

Hacking by irresponsible and unscrupulous people,
Twitter is just as important as any other crypto account.

I am a bounty hunter. Even for bounties here, the allocation of twitter is even more frequent and large, because it is difficult to get a reputation on twitter. For system vulnerabilities, either malwhare or quotes, there are insiders deliberately.
what is clear is that this is very detrimental and its impact on a trend that has changed 180 degrees.

[kryptqnick]

I was also surprised until I read that it was a hacked account message. That being said, giveaway is pretty much always a scam. It's not great that scammers used his account for their purposes because this could play out as an additional negative factor when it comes to making the final decision about India's stance on cryptos. It's a great case for the narrative of cryptos being used by scammers for illegal financial activities.
As mentioned by Lucius, it's not the first case of a big account being hacked, so I think Twitter should really work on their security, ensuring that the inside jobs are difficult to perform, and the 'hacker' can be easily tracked.

[noormcs5]

How come his twitter account get hacks and that too for the 2nd time ?

Careless online activities.

Being a prime minister, you cannot be careless is any activity, specially with your social media accounts.

Any idea who hacked the account 

Probably under investigation, but likely not going to be known because hackers know how to remain anonymous.

So the whole country intelligence agencies are unable to find the hacker after 12-16 hrs of the hack. That's another big question on the country security. Probably they need to hire a hacker to get trace of another hacker.

[Vaskiy]

The ruling government of India has got different plans. Maybe this is one among the agenda to know about the people's mind on the usage of bitcoin as legal tender. This is the second time the account is getting hacked within two years of time. This is what makes me think it in such a way. The previous hack happened last September requesting funds in the form of cryptocurrency for covid-19 relief. Today once again the same account getting hacked is really questionable.

[Taskford]

The official Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was hacked in order for the hackers to scam people.

How come his twitter account get hacks and that too for the 2nd time ?
The prime minister twitter account should have the highest possible security and password  standards. This is something which should not be ignored.

Any idea who hacked the account 

For being hacked for second time around it tells that their prime minister is not so techy and maybe he should stop or at least hire someone who know more better to do the job for him, since if he get hack for the same activity again then this might cause a huge financial damage to his citizen. Also hopefully those hackers will be traced since they are playing a dangerous game here.

[DdmrDdmr]

I was trying to see the actual mechanics of the promoted scam giveaway, but since the site is down, I couldn’t find all that I was looking for. This time, instead of it being a doubler, the scammers were spirited to perform a x10 it seems (send me x and you’ll get x10 in return), at least judging by the (fake) comments on the link provided below.

What would be interesting to see is the BTC address used for the scam, and determine how much they managed to scam and from how many people. I don’t know if anybody has seen info on the used BTC address.

See: https://web.archive.org/web/20211211204938/https://india-official.blogspot.com/

[yayayo]

I was trying to see the actual mechanics of the promoted scam giveaway, but since the site is down, I couldn’t find all that I was looking for. This time, instead of it being a doubler, the scammers were spirited to perform a x10 it seems (send me x and you’ll get x10 in return), at least judging by the (fake) comments on the link provided below.

What would be interesting to see is the BTC address used for the scam, and determine how much they managed to scam and from how many people. I don’t know if anybody has seen info on the used BTC address.

See: https://web.archive.org/web/20211211204938/https://india-official.blogspot.com/

This is something that should not be taken lightly by the government of India. Considering that the account of the prime minister was used in promoting and encouraging such, it is the responsibility of the authorities to take actions because their names are being associated with this accordingly. Moreover, given that the prime minister is a high profile individual in the society, his accounts must be secured at the utmost level possible not just to safety personal information but to not compromise public welfare as well.

ya.ya.yo!

[FIFA worldcup]

I don't know how these hackers gained access to the accounts of people in the high ranking of the society. I remember it also happens to some of the celebrities Twitter accounts. This is something that needs to be focused on for all the social media platforms.
This kind of Tweets will somehow teach the people not to trust immediately especially If it happens like out of the blues without any previous Tweets about these.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it may be probably another “inside job” like what happened before to the Twitter account of Elon Musk and other well-known celebrities several months ago. Followers will easily be deceived as the  scam tweet comes from the original account himself and yes this is very bad.

Lets for a moment think that it was an inside job then what does was the purpose of this inside job ?
No one got scammed or something like that and neither India made crypto legal or illegal on this act. I am unable to find the possible purpose behind this action.

[Chaim Herzog41]

I think his twitter account has been hacked