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Twitter account of Indian envoy to UN hacked, restored

Kashmir Times. Dated: 1/15/2018 12:01:09 AM

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 14 (Agencies): The Twitter account of Syed Akbaruddin was hacked early today, with the unperturbed Indian envoy to the UN asserting that it would take more than a hack to keep him down.
The unidentified hackers, suspected to be based overseas, posted two pictures and a video, and changed the name of Akbaruddin’s twitter account from @AkbaruddinIndia to @AkbaruddinSyed.
After the hack was noticed, Twitter briefly blocked the twitter handle of India’s permanent representative to the UN.
The account was later restored by the micro-blogging site which also launched a probe.
Akbaruddin thanked twitter and said that it would take more than a hack to keep him down.
“I’m back. It will take more than a hack to keep me down. Thanks to Twitter India and many others who helped,” Akbaruddin said in a tweet.