Punjab Congress’ Twitter handle hacked

Chandigarh, Apr 11: The official twitter handle of the Punjab unit of the Congress was hacked on Monday. The account posted over 100 tweets in a few minutes, tagging random accounts, most of whom seemed to be related to activities around digital assets like NFTs and crypto currencies.

"In celebration of 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," the hackers removed the profile picture and posted.

The Punjab Congress Twitter handle has over 184.9K followers.

On Saturday, the official Twitter handle of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister's Office was hacked briefly.

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.

The accounts of the IMD (India Meteorological Department) and the UGC (University Grants Commission) have also been hacked in the last two days.

The breach came to notice when some unidentified hackers took control of UGC India's Twitter account and posted a long thread of irrelevant tweets tagging numerous unknown persons across the world.