Indian PM Twitter account hacked with a crypto scam

[SH-M]

Just as worrying would be how many thought it was genuine and acted on it...

This.

Everyone's expressions and feelings are doom and gloom about their Gov. and politicians in overall - but then they also believe that all of a sudden these same folks turned out to be 'angels'. Ludicrous....

 

[R4v3nbl4ck]

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

Yes, of course there are less footprints with web 2.0s than domains. However, I've never seen a crypto scam done on a 2.0. That's odd. Maybe they really wanted to play safe.

 

[Epicster]

I got it, you are a fanboy of that guy. I don't know how he runs the country, and he may as well be the best politician in the world, but for sure he doesn't know enough about Bitcoin to make an unbiased decision about it. Most old politicians don't even know how to turn on a computer.

No one's here is he's fanboy, but obviously, you do look like a hater of him.

He knows better stuff than you for sure. A random guy comes and says "I know everything, the Prime minister doesn't" It's laughable. You don't even know before him, the Regulators (Reserve bank of India) did imposed a Ban on cryptos and he works on the suggestions he gets.

I can give you 100's of reasons why cryptos need to be banned!

• Criminal Activities
• Un-traceable
• Uncertainty
• Not Regulated by anyone.

These are just the start.

If it was so secure, how come it got hacked?

Yeah, he's the only one in the whole universe, whose account got hacked. None of the European, AU, US, UK accounts got hacked in the past which you obviously bragged about in the opening post.

Come On!

Anyways! NO point in arguing further!

 

[R4v3nbl4ck]

He knows better stuff than you for sure. A random guy comes and says "I know everything, the Prime minister doesn't" It's laughable. You don't even know before him, the Regulators (Reserve bank of India) did imposed a Ban on cryptos and he works on the suggestions he gets.

I never said I know more than him about politics, but I'm pretty sure I know more than him about crypto.

• Criminal Activities
• Un-traceable
• Uncertainty
• Not Regulated by anyone.

- Less than 2% of crypto transactions are related to criminal activities. How about cash?
- False. Blockchains are literally the most traceable and transparent system in the world. No financial system is more traceable than crypto.
- Uncertanty about what?
- They are regulated in a lot of countries and BTC is even legal tender in one country. All exchanges also need to be compliant and regulated.

 

[Epicster]

I never said I know more than him about politics, but I'm pretty sure I know more than him about crypto.

He knows about anything more than you including cryptos. He deals with 1000's of people who say the same stuff as you.

I never said I know more than him about politics, but I'm pretty sure I know more than him about crypto.

- Less than 2% of crypto transactions are related to criminal activities. How about cash?
- False. Blockchains are literally the most traceable and transparent system in the world. No financial system is more traceable than crypto.
- Uncertanty about what?
- They are regulated in a lot of countries and BTC is even legal tender in one country. All exchanges also need to be compliant and regulated.

Every country is different in working style, culture, traditions, etc.

Terrorism, Corruption, Money laundering - It's common here in India and when banning cryptos, he has to take everything into consideration, it's just not 1 single thing on which he has to make a decision.

You tell me China Banned Cryptos? Xi doesn't know anything about cryptos? You said it right, Crypto is legal tender in only a country?

Uncertainty - No one knows what happens tomorrow. It might even get banned in near future.

Just because the govt is looking to ban cryptos for some reason and a random person on BHW doesn't like it, it won't going to change the fact that he knows stuff better than anyone of us here. He leads worlds 1/6 of the population for some reason.

You took this matter as "Modi hates crypto" when in fact it was about his account being hacked, which obviously anyone's can!

Anyways, you know everything! End of discussion.

 

[b_hatW]

Crypto, the future.

 

[Zakch93]

A freakin Blogspot link! xD

- False. Blockchains are literally the most traceable and transparent system in the world. No financial system is more traceable than crypto.

Weren't people supporting BTC for its intractability in the beginning, or I'm misconstruing things?

So Crypto is not anonymous etcetera? How do criminals use it?

 

[adsn]

Ignore the blind followers OP. They all have daddy issues !!

 

[Ashk881]

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.

You'd surprised. Theres an internal admin tool at Twitter that gives employees complete access to Twitter accounts, remember the mass attack on high profile Twitter accounts last year? The hackers tricked employees into a social engineering attack and got access to this internal tool.

https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/access-to-internal-twitter-admin-tools-is-widespread
Pretty sure the same modus operandi was used for this instance too. Nothing to do with their weak passwords or weak account security (which I am pretty sure any high profile Twitter account will not have)

 

[Gogol]

You'd surprised. Theres an internal admin tool at Twitter that gives employees complete access to Twitter accounts, remember the mass attack on high profile Twitter accounts last year? The hackers tricked employees into a social engineering attack and got access to this internal tool.

https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/access-to-internal-twitter-admin-tools-is-widespread
Pretty sure the same modus operandi was used for this instance too. Nothing to do with their weak passwords or weak account security (which I am pretty sure any high profile Twitter account will not have)

Well that would be the next logical explanation. Could be exactly this.

 

[Epicster]

Well that would be the next logical explanation. Could be exactly this.

At least someone's got a logical point here instead of blaming 2FA and weak passwords LOL!

 

[YourBro]

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.

Just to make you correct - No PM handles their Twitter account or any other social media account or their passwords personally they have more important things to do, there are people who handle these account for them, only they consent before posting anything for them (NOT PM PERSONALLY OF ANY COUNTRY). If someone someday hacks your BHW account, don’t tell you don't know how to keep passwords safe, a hacker can hack any safer password you have that’s why they are called hacker.