- Wednesday, February 26, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
SEVERAL leaders of the opposition in India on Sunday (12) expressed concern over the alleged hacking of prime minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter account saying it exposed chinks in the country’s cyber security.
They said cyber security was as significant as border and internal security and sought to know whether the Aadhaar (a unique identity number) data of all Indian citizens are safe.
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Jaiveer Shergill, a spokesperson of the Indian National Congress, one of India’s main opposition parties, said, “Hacking of Twitter handle of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is an issue of big concern, worry and exposes the chinks in cyber security. With advancement and reliability on technology, policy makers must realise that cyber security is equally important as border, internal security.”
Priyanka Chaturvedi, deputy leader of the Shiv Sena in Rajya Sabha or the upper house of the Indian parliament said, “Prime Minister’s account hacked briefly. Cyber security level exposed greatly.”
Shama Mohammed, another Congress spokesperson said, “PM Modi’s Twitter handle was hacked last night. This is a major security breach.
“If the government cannot adequately secure the account of the Prime Minister, how is it protecting the biometric Aadhaar data of crores of Indians which it insisted on collecting,” she asked.”
Indian Youth Congress president BV Srinivas mocked in response to a tweet on the alleged hacking. “Good Morning Modi ji, Sab Changa Si (Good morning Mr Modi, is everything fall right)?” he said in response to the tweet that claimed India has “officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender” was put out from the hacked account.
Srinivas also asked, “When hackers were selling Bitcoin from Modi ji’s account, where was the ‘chowkidaar’ (gatekeeper) at the time.
“So the hackers knew, Modi ji’s password didn’t have the ‘STREANH’?(sic)” he said in another tweet.
Modi’s Twitter handle was briefly hacked on Sunday and a tweet claiming that India has “officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender” was put out from it.
The prime minister’s office later said the account was immediately secured after the matter was escalated to Twitter.
“The Twitter handle of PM @narendramodi was very briefly compromised. The matter was escalated to Twitter and the account has been immediately secured. In the brief period that the account was compromised, any Tweet shared must be ignored,” it said.
