Twitter Account of Information and Broadcasting Ministry Compromised Briefly, Control Restored After Few Minutes

GG News Bureau

New Delhi, 12^th Jan. The Twitter account of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting was briefly compromised on Wednesday morning.  The Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting gave the information.

However, the account was restored after a few minutes, said Kanchan Gupta, Senior Adviser, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

“The account @Mib_india has been restored. This is for the information of all the followers,” tweeted the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. “Alert The account @Mib_india was compromised for a brief while. It has been restored,” tweeted Gupta.

The hackers renamed the Ministry’s account as ‘Elon Musk’ and posted some tweets which were later deleted.