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Indian PM Modi target of Twitter hack soliciting relief funds

Twitter confirmed on Thursday that an account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal website was hacked with a series of tweets asking its followers to donate to a relief fund through cryptocurrency.

On 2nd September, the twitter handle was hacked.Several tweets were done appealing the followers to donate to PM Relief Fund for Covid-19 through cryptocurrency.One ETH wallet address was provided but no money was transferred into that wallet.

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The incident comes after several Twitter accounts of prominent personalities were hacked in July.

In the mid of July,more than 100 twitter accounts of famous personalities were hacked in order to request Bitcoin from the followers which included the twitter account of Elon Musk, Barack Obama,Bill Gates,Jeff Bezos,Warren Buffett and many more. Later the mastermind of this hack was arrested.