A day after Rahul Gandhi’s twitter handle put out offensive and homophobic comments , the official Twitter handle of Indian National Congress appeared to have been hacked on Thursday morning for a few minutes. A series of abusive tweets were sent out to its 1.8 million followers.
Congress Party had filed a police complaint against those who hacked Officeof RG twitter handle.
The latest hack seemed as a reply against the grand old party’s decision to file police case against the hackers.”We got them keys keys keys. You really want to lodge a complaint, huh?,” the first tweet said.
The hackers called Congress a corrupt party and claimed to have hacked the email of the congress and has threatened to make them public.”Coming up is a full dump of inc.in congress emails, stay tuned for Christmas special. We have enough info to drop your party down to shreds,”
Meanwhile Congress spokesperson Randeep P Surjewala said that continuous hacker attacks exposed the vulnerability of cyber security and digital platforms in India.
He called the hackers as “lumpen fascists” and added that Congress will fight such hatred with Gandhian compassion and tolerance.
Hinting towards the right-wing hackers involvement in the cyber attack, he tweeted “ such despotic &vulgar attempts reflects the extremities of an intolerant culture that resorts to abuse when cornered and left answer less.”
First @OfficeOfRG & now @INCIndia hacked by lumpen fascists. Free speech & right to disagree in India is under attack by licensed trolls.1/n
— Randeep S Surjewala (@rssurjewala) December 1, 2016
Cyber attacks on @INCIndia & @OfficeOfRG exposes the vulnerability of cyber security & Digital platforms in India. An eye opener for Modiji!
— Randeep S Surjewala (@rssurjewala) December 1, 2016
Indian National Congress has fought such hatred & animosity with Gandhian compassion & tolerance. सबको सन्मती दे भगवान! 3/n
— Randeep S Surjewala (@rssurjewala) December 1, 2016
Abusive tweets from both the verified accounts have been deleted now.
