India adopted Bitcoin as legal tender, says hacker

A hacker hacked the Twitter account of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and wrote that India adopted Bitcoin officially as legal tender. 

On 12 December at 02:14 IST, The official Twitter account of the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi tweeted that India adopted Bitcoin officially as legal tender and also bought 500 Bitcoins. 

As we can see in the screenshot shown below

When the PMO office came to know about this thing, they informed everyone that the Twitter account of the Prime minister got hacked and ignored all the messages regarding Bitcoin-like things. 

Around 1 hour later, PM Modi’s office tweeted it officially that the PM’s account got hacked but now the account has been recovered successfully. 

Many crypto experts of the Indian crypto community said that cyberattack on the Twitter accounts at such levels regarding the promotion of Bitcoin-like assets, are purely a wrong strategy to facilitate scams and in these ways, hackers are trying to force the government of India to ban crypto-related activities or impose very high restrictions.

Prime minister Narendra Modi on crypto 

In the past, many government officials of India directly criticized Bitcoin to adopt it as legal tender. However many people suggested using crypto assets for trading purposes is a better idea.

In the last 30 days, the Indian prime minister shared his point of view on crypto on multiple occasions.

A few days ago, In a Democratic summit, the Prime Minister said that Social media and Cryptocurrency should be standardized under a better framework to bring fair elections and governance. 

And around a few weeks ago, the PM office tweeted a statement of the Prime minister and wrote that cryptocurrencies, for example, Bitcoin, needed to be prohibited to go in the wrong hands and save youths from illicit activities. For this Democratic nations needed to worth together.

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