The Official Twitter account of India Meteorological Department (IMD) was hacked and later a false tweet has been posted on Saturday evening. The account was finally restored after a few hours.
The hackers had then put up a tweet directed towards NFT (Non-Fungible Tokens) traders. The tweet saying “In celebration for the reveal of the Beanz Official Collection, we have opened up an airdrop to all active NFT traders in the community for the next 2 hours!” was pinned to the profile.
The profile picture had been removed and several tweets were put out tagging multiple handles.
In a statement the IMD stated that that “Official Twitter account (@Indiametdept) of India Meteorological Department (IMD) has been hacked about an hour ago. All the tweets from this account should be ignored till its restoration.”
The official Twitter of the IMD is with the username @Indiametdept . It has more than 2.46 lakh of followers.
After the restoration of the official account, IMD took to twitter and wrote, “Twitter Account (@Indiametdept) of India Meteorological Department had been hacked this evening. It has now been restored.”