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The Prime Minister Office's (PMO) twitter handle was hacked for a while early on Sunday, for which it has escalated the matter to the microblogging site.
"In the brief period that the account was compromised, any Tweet shared must be ignored," it added.
During the twitter handle was compromised, the hacked @PMOIndia tweeted saying, "India has officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender. The government has officially bought 500BTC and is distributing them to all residents for free...the future has come today!"
When asked, a Twitter spokesperson said, "We have 24X7 open lines of communication with the PM’s Office and our teams took necessary steps to secure the compromised account as soon as we became aware of this activity."
The preliminary investigation showed no other impact, the company said.
"Our investigation has revealed that there are no signs of any other impacted accounts at this time...As per our investigation to date, it appears that the account was not compromised due to any breach of Twitter’s systems," the spokesperson added.
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