Congress party's official Twitter account was hacked and posted abusive tweets on Thursday (File)
Highlights
- Congress party's Twitter account hacked on Thursday morning
- Account restored after 12 tweets were posted including abuses and threats
- Rahul Gandhi's Twitter account was hacked yesterday
A day after his Twitter account was hacked and flooded with profanities, Rahul Gandhi tweeted that he "loves all my haters and they are beautiful." The Congress number 2's account was "compromised through an email breach", sources in Twitter India said today.
Mr Gandhi's email account, the Congress's Twitter page, its website and server were all hacked between 9.30 pm on Wednesday and 10 am today, the party has told the police. The hacker may be based outside India and using a proxy server, say sources in the Delhi Police, which has sent a questionnaire to Twitter.
On Wednesday evening, tweets full of expletives, and racist and homophobic slur were posted on Mr Gandhi's page around 8.30 pm. The hackers later removed his profile picture and changed the title from @OfficeOfRG to "Retarded Gandhi".
After his account was restored, the 45-year-old tweeted a message.This morning, a dozen abusive tweets were posted on Congress's @INCIndia's account. One of the tweets that emerged on the Congress Twitter page this morning threatened to post a "full dump" of emails.
One of the tweets posted by the hacker threatened to dump emails of the Congress party.
The government has started an investigation and asked for details of users who have logged on to the accounts in the past week.
"As soon as I heard it last night, I spoke to the IT person in charge," Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters, adding that he had asked Twitter to remove the offensive tweets.
The Congress has alleged that the attack was by "licensed trolls" and reflected "disturbing insecurities of prevalent fascist culture". The party, however, was asked not to "make a big issue" of the hacking in parliament by Mr Gandhi at a meeting this morning.
Senior party leader Kapil Sibal said: "Hacking will always be an issue but as we move towards digital economy, you must ensure accounts are not hacked. The government must assure systems are in place."
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