Two breaches in a little over a year suggest the PMO is doing little to strengthen cybersecurity.
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 …
Mahima is a former writer at The Morning Context, who covered large tech companies and what they do in India. Previously, she wrote about business, economy and markets with a special focus on startups at BloombergQuint, where she says she learnt financial journalism on the job.
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