Why is it so easy to hack Modi’s Twitter account?

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Editor's note: Mahima here. It’s a big deal when the head of the state’s Twitter account is hacked. It’s an even bigger deal when it happens twice in little over a year. Borderline embarrassing.  Which brings me to the question we’ve all possibly been thinking: How easy is it even to hack Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter account?  Let’s go through the facts again. Modi’s personal account was hacked in the wee hours of Sunday morning, around 2 am, when a tweet was posted, claiming the Indian government had accepted bitcoin as legal tender and would be distributing the 500 BTC it just purchased. An hour later, the prime minister’s official account confirmed that the account had been “briefly compromised” and any tweets posted in that duration should be ignored.  Speaking of “ignored”, the prime minister’s account was hacked once before in September 2020. Errant tweets asked for donations to the PM CARES fund—meant for COVID-19 relief—through cryptocurrency. An official at the private arm of the Indian Computer Emergency Response System, or CERT-In, revealed that the incident was investigated by CERT-In, back …