The official Twitter account of India’s one of the most trusted airlines Air India was hacked by a group of Turkish hackers. The suspected hackers of this cyber attack are the same people who recently had hacked the Twitter accounts of political leaders including Kiran Bedi and Ram Madhav. Air India has confirmed this by posting a tweet regarding this.
#FlyAI : Early today #AirIndia twitter handle @airindiain was hacked. We would like to inform our passengers, that the handle is fully functional now. Further there is no cyber security threat on this handle and security measures have been taken. Thank you @Twitter @TwitterIndia.
— Air India (@airindiain) March 15, 2018
The name of Air India’s account was changed from @airindiain to @ airindiatr and a lot of Turkish tweets were liked by this account during the short period. Fake tweets about cancellation of flights were also shared. The tweets have been removed now and everything seems to be back to normal.
Twitter users came to know this and they wrote their thoughts on this.
Someday PM Modi’s account will get hacked.
It's very shameful that we can't keep our account safe also here in India. Someday PM Modi's account will get hacked.
— Mohit Sharma (@mohitsharma13_) March 15, 2018
Low level of personal security
Low level of personal security
— मारवाड़ी छोरा (@SuprmeGodKabir) March 15, 2018
Take needful security
@airindiain take needful security .
— Vivek Mishra (@iamvivekarya) March 15, 2018
Hackers deserve punishment
Hackers deserving punishment 😣
— Amir Naru (@aamirnaru) March 15, 2018
Twitter has been facing a lot of hacks and there seems to be a bug that needs to be fixed soon as Twitter is used by many popular personalities whose views make a big impact on common people.
