Twitter account of UP Chief Minister’s Office restored

New Delhi: The Twitter account of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) was restored after it was hacked on Saturday.

UP CMO (@CMOfficeUP) Twitter account has four million followers at present. The breach came to light when unknown hackers used the UP CMO Twitter handle to publish a post based on a tutorial called “How to turn your BAYC/MAYC animated on Twitter”. In addition, a cartoonist picture was used as a profile picture on the UP CMO account.

#UPDATE | Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Office’s Twitter account restored after it was briefly hacked. pic.twitter.com/xmnLgOXRvF

— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) April 9, 2022

The unidentified hackers also posted a thread of some random tweets on the UP CMO account.