South Korean group hacks PM Narendra Modi’s Twitter account

On Thursday, programmers who recognized themselves as ‘John Wick’ (likewise the name of a Hollywood film arrangement) conveyed a few unapproved tweets that have now been erased
The programmers obtained entrance by trading off at least one individuals who handle the Twitter represent the PM’s own site
A speculated South Korean programmer bunch quickly assumed responsibility for a Twitter handle related to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s own site on Thursday, asserting it needed to free its name from a past hacking episode that it said had been wrongly credited to it.
On Thursday, programmers who recognized themselves as ‘John Wick’ (likewise the name of a Hollywood film arrangement) conveyed a few unapproved tweets that have now been erased.
“Truly, this record is hacked by John Wick. We have not hacked PayTM Mall,” the programmers wrote in a tweet sent through the hacked account. The aggressors who penetrated the internet business stage requested a payment of $4,000 for the information they took.
Dissimilar to the Twitter hack in July, where significant characters like Bill Gates’ records were hacked, this was a flaw at the client’s end. Twitter affirmed that the hack had no connection to the July episode and that its frameworks hadn’t been undermined. This implies the programmers obtained entrance by trading off at least one individuals who handle the Twitter represent the PM’s own site.
Sudar Balasubramaniam, overseeing chief India and Saarc, at Check Point Software, said the hack “demonstrates that organized social building assaults are turning into the standard”. Such assaults can generally be kept away from by guaranteeing legitimate security conventions at both the individual and hierarchical levels.
A representative for Twitter affirmed that the site page—@narendramodi_in—related with the PM’s site, narendramodi.in, was undermined. Not long after 3am, a few posts were made, some of them encouraging individuals to give to a digital money wallet that the programmers said was connected to the “PM National Relief Fund”.
“There is no other goal to hack this record. As of late, counterfeit updates on our name saying PayTM Mall [was] hacked by us. So we sent an email to all news distributors in India [that] it’s not us, nobody answered, so we chose to post something,” said an individual who reacted from the email address that was posted in one of the tweets after the hack, Hindustan Times revealed. The tweets have since been brought down.