After Rahul Gandhi, Now Congress’ Twitter Handle Hacked

A day after Rahul Gandhi's hacked Twitter handle put out offensive and homophobic posts on Wednesday evening, the Congress party's account has also been hacked and abusive tweets have been posted on Thursday morning.

The matter of the Congress Vice-President's hacked account was taken to cyber cell on Thursday.

Over 200 congress accounts were suspended on Thursday and the leaders were asked to not use them for a few days, NDTV reported.

Tweets from both the verified accounts posted after the hacking have been deleted.

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While Congress condemned the act, people on social media trolled the party and many alleged that the hacking had BJP's support.

Initial reports on the probe suggested that Rahul Gandhi's official email ID was used to access his Twitter account, News18's Subhajit Sengupta tweeted.

The NSUI's website also seemed to have been down and Twitter users reported that multiple log-in attempts were made to hack into the Twitter handle.

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The Congress' official website, inc.in also seemed to have gone offline on Thursday evening.

The co-founder and CEO of Lucideus, Saket Modi, told The Quint about how the hacking could have been done. Modi said:

He added that he believed that there was more data in the hands of the hackers which they had not put out yet.

He also said that it was Twitter and the owner of the account are responsible for the safety of the account and since only two accounts were hacked, so it might not have been a problem on Twitter's end.

INC India has posted a new tweet saying “we are back”, after the situation calmed down a bit.

Hello everyone! We are back. The tweets in the morning lacked wit, evidently.

Anyway, Mr Modi, back to people's questions, care to answer?

On Thursday morning, Rahul Gandhi's account posted the below tweet, saying, “I love all my haters,” which seems to be from Gandhi himself.

To every one of you haters out there. I love all of you. You're beautiful. Your hatred just doesn't let you see it yet

The Congress has, meanwhile, filed a complaint with the cyber cell of Delhi Police over the hacking of Gandhi's account.

Delhi Police has initiated a probe and has written to the management of the social media site seeking necessary details.

We have written to Twitter to provide us log details such as the IP address of the hackers. We have started investigating the matter.

Senior Police Official

Ministry of Information Technology has taken notice of the situation, and has asked Twitter to submit details of activities of the last 6 days on Rahul Gandhi's account.

Also Read: Dear Rahul Gandhi, Here's How to Keep Your Twitter Account Secure

Now Rachit Seth's Twitter Account Hacked

Next in line after Rahul Gandhi and INC's official account is Rachit Seth in Twitter hacking mayhem in the INC. Seth, who looks after Congress's communications, had his Twitter account hacked on Thursday evening.

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Congress Reacts, Raises Digital Security Issue

The hacking has raised concerns over digital security with the Congress speaking out about it. Rahul Gandhi has reacted to the situation and said:

It's a huge question mark on digital security.

Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said this act shows that “free speech and right to disagree in India is under attack by licensed trolls.”

Cyber attacks on @INCIndia & @OfficeOfRG exposes the vulnerability of cyber security & Digital platforms in India. An eye opener for Modiji!

The way @OfficeOfRG a/c got hacked,as cybercrime & Twitter watched helpless raises serious Q's on digital safety, Digital India future

First @OfficeOfRG gets hacked, now @INCIndia gets compromised. What the hell is going on?

After @OfficeOfRG now @INCIndia gets hacked-

What's going on???@Twitter should immediately stop this.

Hacking of@OfficeofRG proves lack of Digital safety around each one of us. Every digital info can be accessed, altered, morphed & modified.

BJP Counters Congress' Blame Game

Meanwhile, the Congress has accused the BJP to be behind the hacking incidents. "The BJP cannot handle criticism. This is a conspiracy against us," the Congress said, according to CNN News18.

While Congress MP Ahmed Patel has said that the government has assured support to the Congress over the hacking incident, reported India Today.

Countering the Congress' claims, the BJP asserted that there is no need for them to hack the Congress' Twitter account. “No one takes Rahul Gandhi or the Congress seriously,” BJP spokesperson Zafar Islam was quoted as saying by CNN News18.

Patel earlier pointed fingers at the government saying amidst the calls for a Digital India, have they ensured safety from hacking.

Those forcing country to adopt online payment overnight,have they taken steps to ensure a/c of ordinary ppl will be immune from hacking?

Reacting strongly on the matter, the Congress spokesperson Sanjay Jha termed the incident as a matter of national security. "It is the responsibility of the government to check this," he said.

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