NEW DELHI – Bollywood’s social media accounts are under the radar of aninternational hacking ring, as just a day after actor Anupam Kher’s twitteraccount was taken over by hackers, Abhishek Bachchan twitter also becamethe prey to the hackers, followed by a pro-Pakistani tweet.
Abhishek’s twitter handle was changed to ‘JuniorBachchana’ from‘JuniorBachchan’ as soon as the hackers took over his account. According tomedia reports, a Turkish Cyber Army is behind all these hacking incidents.
Abhishek Bachchan shares adorable throwback photo of niecelink>
The Cyber Army then declared through his account that they have also gainedunauthorized access of other celebrity’s accounts like ‘Airlift’ actressNimrat Kaur and Pritish Nandy. This Turkey-based cyber group called‘Ayyildiz Tim’ has also hacked twitter accounts of Puducherry GovernorKiran Bedi, actor Anupam Kher, BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav and RajyaSabha MP Swapan Dasgupta, according to PTI.
One of Abhishek’s tweet read, “Your account has been hacked by the Turkishcyber army Ayyildiz Tim. Your DM correspondence and important data havebeen captured! Turkiye and Pakistan (heart emoji).”
Soon after Abhishek’s account was recovered, he deleted the tweets andwrote about the hacking incidents thanking India’s Twitter for helping himretrieve his original handle.
Yes, yes my account got hacked. Quite chuffed that they thought meinteresting enough actually ????. All sorted out now and back to normal.Well…. As normal as it can get. ????Thank you for your concern.
— Abhishek Bachchan (@juniorbachchan) February 7, 2018link>
Thank you @TwitterIndialink> for you promptaction and help.
— Abhishek Bachchan (@juniorbachchan) February 7, 2018link>
A similar tweet was seen on Anupam’s twitter account after it was hacked bythe same group.