Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi's twitter account hacked a few hours ago, with hackers posting tweets and asking people to donate money to ‘PM Relief Fund For COVID-19’ through cryptocurrency. 

The account in question was PM Modi’s personal account with the handle @narendramodi_in. Hackers took control of the account and tweeted “I appeal to you all to donate generously to PM National Relief Fund for COVID-19.

Now India will begin with cryptocurrency.” this was followed by a Bitcoin link for donation. A Twitter spokesperson said in a statement to ET, “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."

The account has now been restored. This is the first instance of the cyber breach since the massive hacking spree that took place in July that affected the accounts of several businessmen and politicians in the US including Bill Gates, Barrack Obama, Elon Musk and several others.

Just hours ago, the government of India went ahead and banned PUBG Mobile from apps stores in India on the gounds of breaching data privacy of users, along with 118 more apps. This caused quite an uproar with the youth who loved playing the game for hours.Indiatimes

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