Earlier in December, twitter accounts of the popular personalities like Rahul Gandhi were hacked. This time the hackers quite straightly headed on to the media channels. After some gap, the hackers now allegedly got their hands on India’s premier news agency Press Trust of India (PTI) on Wednesday.
According to the later details shared by the PTI, their account was operated by hackers in during the evening between 7.30 pm to 7.50 pm by a group called ‘Iran Crack Security’ team.
Quickly after hacking the official account, the hackers changed the PTI logo on Twitter and posted a few tweets such as ‘Best channel in the telegram‘ ‘Join the best channel telegram’ and ‘learn something news’.
However, the agency had a quick look into the details and successfully recovered the services within few minutes.
Right after recovering their account, the PTI issued a statement on their official Twitter handle saying:
“Between 7:30 PM and 7.50 PM, PTI Twitter account was hacked. PTI is not responsible for any messages that could have appeared in that period.”
Between 7:30 PM & 7.50 PM, PTI Twitter account was hacked. PTI is not responsible for any messages that could have appeared in that period.
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) February 1, 2017