CEA Arvind Subramanian's Twitter handle hacked

NEW DELHI: The Twitter handle of India's Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian was hacked on Monday. Tweets from the CEA's handle directed twitteratis to an adult hook-up site.

A hacker posted a raunchy image on the CEA's twitter handle with the caption, "Is it difficult for you to find a right partner who will accept any of your crazy desires?"




Thereafter, the account turned inaccessible for some time. His account, however, was restored within a short while.

After the restoration, Mr Subramanian tweeted, "My twitter account was hacked. My profuse apologies for the nuisance/offensive tweets that were sent out as a result."

My twitter account was hacked. My profuse apologies for the nuisance/offensive tweets that were sent out as a result.

— arvind subramanian (@arvindsubraman) October 17, 2016

Subramanian is followed by more than 45,000 people on twitter.

This is the second instance in recent times where a high-profile twitter account was hacked. In the second week of September, Chairman emeritus of Tata Sons Ratan Tata on Saturday had his hacked Twitter account restored.

An otherwise reclusive twitterati, Mr Tata had tweeted after his account was restored, "Shocked my a/c was hacked yesterday & spurious tweet sent with malicious intent. Tweet deleted, a/c restored. C link."

A tweet from Mr Tata's account marking Delhi CM @ArvindKejriwal had a tweet by @RealHistotryPic, a parody account. It had Mukesh Ambani and Narendra Modi in the same frame. The caption read: Owner of Network 18 welcoming his employee to address people how (sic) cronies are going to halt inflation.

Shocked my a/c was hacked yesterday & spurious tweet sent with malicious intent.Tweet deleted, a/c restored. C link. pic.twitter.com/L0HKIy4nHC

— Ratan N. Tata (@RNTata2000) September 10, 2016