Ratan Tata's Twitter account hacked, restored

AHMEDABAD: Chairman emeritus of Tata Sons Ratan Tata on Saturday got his hacked Twitter account restored.

An otherwise reclusive twitterati, Mr Tata tweeted on Saturday evening: “Shocked my a/c was hacked yesterday & spurious tweet sent with malicious intent. Tweet deleted, a/c restored. C link.”

The post mentioned a link that said: “Shocked that my Twitter account was hacked yesterday and a spurious malicious tweet was wrongly attributed to me. This spurious tweet has now been deleted any my Twitter account restored. I regret the inconvenience that this malicious and wrongful action may have caused.”

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

Mr Tata who is seldom onboard twitter despite having 6.13 mn followers, has so far tweeted 119 times, the latest being on Saturday evening following restoration of his account.




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

Tweeples have since then, retweeted him, some even urging him to register a formal compliant.