Beleagured industrialist Vijay Mallya on Friday said that his Twitter account has been hacked and the outfit responsible for this was blackmailing him.
A series of tweets appeared on Mallya’s Twitter account on Friday morning with the purported passwords of the various bank accounts of the owner of now defunct Kingfisher Airlines.
Here are a few tweets that were allegedly sent out:
The bank accounts, assets, passports, offshore investments of mallya can be found at –https://t.co/4PClILJG4n
— Vijay Mallya (@TheVijayMallya) December 9, 2016
Support legion.
We will bring you the info needed to bring these criminals to justice!— Vijay Mallya (@TheVijayMallya) December 9, 2016
We did not blackmail Mallya, any and all rumours are assumptions and fake!
He is creating propaganda.— Vijay Mallya (@TheVijayMallya) December 9, 2016
A few hours prior to the tweets, Mallya had tweeted about the hacking and asked for the tweets to be ignored.
My account has been hacked by some one called Legion who are Tweeting now in my name. Simply ignore. Will fix this .
— Vijay Mallya (@TheVijayMallya) December 8, 2016
Outfit called Legion has hacked my e-mail accounts and are blackmailing me !! What a joke.
— Vijay Mallya (@TheVijayMallya) December 8, 2016
This development comes days after the Twitter accounts of Congress and its vice president Rahul Gandhi were hacked.