The official Twitter account of India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (@MIB_India) was compromised on Wednesday morning, Kanchan Gupta, Senior Adviser, MIB, said. The Ministry, however, has now regained control of the account. https://twitter.com/MIB_India/status/1481124214782722048?s=20 While the account was compromised, the hackers renamed the account name to Elon Musk and began tweeting random replies, retweets, and malicious links revolving around the Tesla CEO. These have now been deleted. [caption id="attachment_154123" align="aligncenter" width="473"] Source: Twitter[/caption] The latest high-profile account to be compromised This is not the only high-profile account that has been compromised in recent times and it raises serious questions on how such incidents are taking place despite Twitter having provisions for features like multi-factor authentication: PM Narendra Modi's personal Twitter account: Strangely, exactly a month back, on December 12, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal Twitter handle (@narendramodi), which as over 73 million followers, was "briefly compromised." The compromised account sent out a tweet falsely declaring that Bitcoin (BTC) had been adopted as legal tender in the country and that the government has bought 500 BTC to be distributed among residents of the country. Following the incident, the Indian Computer Emergency Response System (CERT-In), the national nodal agency for responding to cybersecurity incidents began an investigation. Twitter accounts of the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), Indian Medical Association (IMA) and Mann Deshi Mahila Bank (a microfinance bank): On January 3, these Twitter accounts were compromised and renamed as Elon Musk and tweets promoting cryptocurrency were shared. Interestingly, the font used for the name Elon Musk in these…
