The Twitter handle of the office of Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath has been targeted by hackers. Hackers hacked the handle @CMOfficeUP on Saturday night at 12.43 pm. Posted materials related to your company on it. Along with changing the DP and background picture of the CMO’s handle, the hacker also tagged hundreds of users and made many tweets. Common people were surprised to see this.
As soon as the news of this matter came to the CM’s office. Immediately the social media team became active. Restoring the handle started at around 1.10 pm. This error persisted for about 40 minutes. However, no official statement has come in this matter yet.
Hackers changed the name of CM Office ID. The name of the Twitter handle is Chief Minister Office, GoUP. Hackers changed it to CMOffice. After this, he kept on tweeting one after the other. Thousands of people were tagged. Not only this, the profile photo and bio of the handle have also been changed. Hacker wrote @BoredApeYC @YugaLabs instead of CM Yogi’s office in bio. In this, the CMO was described as the co-founder of the board app YC and Yuga Labs. Along with this, a tweet has been made pin to top. Even the back picture or banner in the profile was changed.
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The tweet that was pinned by the hacker who hacked the account, provided information about a tutorial for creating an animated picture. Along with this, a three-step process was also described. A link to this was also given. However, after some time the picture of Yogi Adityanath started appearing.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister’s Office’s Twitter account hacked. pic.twitter.com/aRQyM3dqEk
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) April 8, 2022
Users complained to the police
After the Twitter handle of CM Yogi was hacked, many users tagged the UP Police and complained about it. Users started taking screenshots. Along with this, tagging organizations like UP Police, NIA, Cyber Dost, UP Government, Central Government, Twitter India started sharing these screenshots.
questions on cyber security
Let us tell you that more than 40 lakh users follow this handle named @CMOfficeUP. This type of hacking in the handle of the government office of UP CM Yogi Adityanath has raised many questions regarding cyber security.
BJP President JP Nadda’s Twitter account was also hacked
Earlier on February 27, the Twitter account of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president JP Nadda was hacked at 10 am. A series of tweets related to the help of Russia and Ukraine were made from the Twitter account of the BJP leader. However, in the second tweet, Nadda had informed the users about the account being hacked. After some time this account was also recovered.