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India issues Twitter notification after the recent hacking of users such as Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates
India's cyber security nodal agency CERT-In has sent a notice to Twitter asking the micro-blogging site for full details of the recent global hacking incident targeting high-profile users, seeking information on the number of Indian users impacted, as well as the data effect, the source said. The development source told PTI that CERT-In also asked Twitter for information on the number of users from India who visited malicious tweets and links, and whether the affected users had been informed by the platform of unauthorized access to their Twitter accounts.
Twitter did not comment on PTI's email request.
The Government also requested information on the vulnerability of attackers and the modus operandi of the attack, and sought details of the remedial action taken by Twitter to mitigate the impact of the hacking incident.
CERT-In asked Twitter to respond to multiple queries, including details of the incident, and the number of Indian users affected, along with the impact on the data of those users, the source said.
The Indian Tech Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) took action after allegations that hackers had access to Twitter's infrastructure to infiltrate the accounts of many global corporate leaders , politicians, actors, and companies.
The source suggested that CERT-In 's action was aimed at defending the rights of Indian consumers.
Questions were posed by CERT-In Twitter according to the provisions of the Information Technology Act , 2000 and CERT-In Rules 2003, the source suggested.
Cyber criminals broke into Twitter profiles of global high-profile users – including former President Barack Obama, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, as well as a variety of business leaders including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Tesla CEO Elon Musk – in a bitcoin scam on Wednesday.
The false tweets offered USD 2,000 for every USD 1,000 sent to a Bitcoin account. According to some estimates, scammers have obtained hundreds of cryptocurrency payments worth more than USD 100,000 in what is viewed as an unparalleled security violation.
On July 16, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey posted that everyone on Twitter felt 'terrible' about the accident. He also tried to convince customers that the company would share all it could until it had a better picture of exactly what had happened.
