Indian PM Twitter account hacked with a crypto scam

[Elvlin]

He may or may not know how to run a country, but for sure he doesn't know enough about technology to understand crypto and regulate it.

One does not magically hack someone else's account out of nowhere. PM got hacked because he had a weak password and no 2FA, or maybe he fell for a phishing scam or downloaded malware on his device.
Or do you really think it was a Russian dude who simply chose the account, ran some commands and gained access to it like they show in the movies?

well agree the irony on democracy is we didn't get the best people to make decision. but the best politician (taking people vote) the one that get selected.

 

[Royal96]

500 BTC to be distributed within the whole country lol

That would be $0.01 for each citizen

 

[Gogol]

Brace your self Triggered "Bhakts" are coming

Don’t worry @BassTrackerBoats will take care of them.

 

[MKSKS]

He may or may not know how to run a country, but for sure he doesn't know enough about technology to understand crypto and regulate it.

Same story with almost all leaders/politicians around the globe.

PM got hacked because he had a weak password and no 2FA, or maybe he fell for a phishing scam or downloaded malware on his device.

With the amount of famous accounts being compromised on a specific platform, there is something wrong somewhere on the platform itself.

 

[MgicalaEarner]

I dont think so account is hacked , hackers are smart , who use blogger domain lol and + 500BTC too small for this population,
Noob hacker or not hacked Who knows

 

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[Gogol]

With the amount of famous accounts being compromised on a specific platform, there is something wrong somewhere on the platform itself.

i bet 7800 inr there’s a zero day in twitter, and the hackers take advantage of it whenever needed. Twitter engineers know there’s one, but I think they have not figured out what it would be. This is why open source rocks.

 

[R4v3nbl4ck]

With the amount of famous accounts being compromised on a specific platform, there is something wrong somewhere on the platform itself.

I don't think so, otherwise hackers would be able to hack every single account on the platform. But obviously they can't.
Also, if that was the case, they would still be able to post on hacked accounts even after their legit owner gained access again and changed the password.
It's like when people claim their crypto wallet was hacked. They were not hacked, they were scammed.
If there was a way to actually brute-force wallets, hackers would hack Satoshi wallet with 1 million BTC inside, not a random wallet with $100 on it.

 

[nahid133]

maybe inside job

 

[ShashiKumaar]

I can still see in the screen shot. That tweet has been retweeted hundreds of times. Not sure how much BTC did he made with that google affiliate link.

 

[Zablo]

lol, because of this ban news many cryptos went down

 

[Royal96]

For anyone laughing about the blogspot domain: Have you thought about footprints? Most web 2.0 platforms don't ask for any personal information. Just email/password and you're ready to go. Sure, there are domain registrars that are more privacy friendly, but payment could be a possible footprint. And doing things like hacking gov, good luck finding a registrar that will help you hide your identity in this case

 

[Gogol]

For anyone laughing about the blogspot domain: Have you thought about footprints? Most web 2.0 platforms don't ask for any personal information. Just email/password and you're ready to go. Sure, there are domain registrars that are more privacy friendly, but payment could be a possible footprint. And doing things like hacking gov, good luck finding a registrar that will help you hide your identity in this case

Yeah lol, excuse the noobs

 

[Rowdy Devil]

Someone hacked Indian PM Twitter account and posted a crypto scam link. Screenshot here.
The tweet is now deleted, but I'm sure this guy is now angrier than ever at crypto and wants to ban it even more.
I like how a bunch of old dudes who don't even know how to keep a Twitter account secure make nation-wide decisions about a technology they don't understand.
Fortunately, I'm not from India. Not that the situation is much better in Europe, but at least I haven't heard of bans.

FYI pm is not the only to decide on any subject they take suggestions from other members as well.. so your remark to our pm is is really disgraceful .

 

[R4v3nbl4ck]

For anyone laughing about the blogspot domain: Have you thought about footprints? Most web 2.0 platforms don't ask for any personal information. Just email/password and you're ready to go. Sure, there are domain registrars that are more privacy friendly, but payment could be a possible footprint. And doing things like hacking gov, good luck finding a registrar that will help you hide your identity in this case

Then how come 99% of crypto scam sites use real domains?

 

[moonshine7000]

I'm not surprised the PM hacked his own account to justify banning crypto.

 

[Deleted member 708208]

Yeah, they managed to hack a high caliber Twitter account, but didn't even bother to buy a domain name.
Maybe PM's password was "india1234" or something like that.

Leaders of countries usually go with the all-time secure 1q2w3e4r

 

[Shyam007]

They could have done so much with this.

For eg they could have built short positions in Indian equity markets by futures and options and then announced something drastic like demonetization.

Could have made huge money in 5 mins of panic crash, by the time it would have been clarified.

 

[getseoonline]

rip internet

 

[Royal96]

Then how come 99% of crypto scam sites use real domains?

I'm not saying it's not possible with real domains. I'm not into this stuff and those people have their own ways of doing things. But it's a fact that you're leaving fewer footprints about your identity with web 2.0's than real domains.

+ 99% of crypto scams don't involve gov