The official Twitter account of India Meteorological Department (IMD) was hacked on Saturday evening, official said, adding that efforts were on to restore it.
“Official Twitter account (@Indiametdept) of India Meteorological Department (IMD) has been hacked about an hour ago. All the tweets from this account should be ignored till its restoration,” the IMD said in a statement issued at 9.15 pm.
The IMD Twitter handle has more than two million followers. The hacking comes at a time when the IMD handle has been attracting a lot of traffic due to the ongoing intense heatwave in parts of India.
The hacker has posted over 10,000 tweets and also pinned a tweet regarding an NFT trading event.
Earlier in the day, the official Twitter handle of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister's Office was hacked briefly. A case was registered in this connection at the Cyber Crime police station in Lucknow.