UP CM Yogi Adityanath's Office Twitter Handle Hacked, Account Restored

Tweets made by the hackers have been removed!

In the early hours of Saturday, April 9, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Office’s official Twitter account was hacked. After almost 4 hours, the account was partially restored and the tweets posted by the hackers after taking over the account were removed.

After the investigation of the case by cyber experts, the most-strictest action will be taken against those responsible for this crime, the UP government said in a tweet.

UP CMO (@CMOfficeUP) Twitter account has four million followers at present.

After the UP CMO official Twitter was taken over by hackers, more than a hundred tweets were made from the account. The hackers had also removed the Chief Minister’s profile picture from the Twitter handle.

However, Chief Minister Yogi started appearing on the Twitter handle’s picture again.

The hacker replaced the co-founder of the account with @BoredApeYC. As soon as the users became aware of the Twitter handle of UP CMO being hacked, people started complaining about this to CM Yogi Adityanath and UP Police with screenshots of the hacked account.

A few hours later, the account was partially restored and the tweets posted by the handle when the account was hacked had been deleted.

The breach came to light when unknown hackers used the UP CMO Twitter handle to publish a post based on a tutorial called "How to turn your BAYC/MAYC animated on Twitter". In addition, a cartoonist picture was used as a profile picture on the UP CMO account.