Uttar Pradesh CMO official Twitter account hacked, restored
New Delhi, April 9: The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Office’s official Twitter account was hacked in the early hours of Saturday. After almost four hours, the account was partially restored and the tweets posted by the hackers after taking over the account were removed.
After the investigation of the case by cyber experts, the strictest action will be taken against those responsible, the UP Government said in a tweet.
After the UP CMO official Twitter was taken over by hackers, more than 400-500 tweets were made from the account. The hackers had also removed the Chief Minister’s display picture from the Twitter handle.
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The account was fully restored by afternoon. UP CMO (@CMOfficeUP) Twitter account has four million followers at present. The breach came to light when unknown hackers used the UP CMO Twitter handle to publish a post based on a tutorial called "How to turn your BAYC/MAYC animated on Twitter".
In addition, a cartoonist picture was used as a profile picture on the UP CMO account.
The unidentified hackers also posted a thread of some random tweets on the UP CMO account.
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-PTC News
