The Twitter handle of the Union information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry was compromised on Wednesday as the name was changed to entrepreneur Elon Musk temporarily before it was restored.

“The account @Mib_india has been restored. This is for the information of all the followers,” the ministry, which has 1.4 million followers on Twitter, tweeted after the account was restored.

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Hindustan Times reported an official and said that an investigation will be conducted to see what exactly happened.

After the account was hacked, several tweets containing links to “amazing news” with bitcoin written in the background were shared. However, Opoyi cannot confirm what these links led to.

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Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter account was briefly hacked after a tweet claiming that India has “officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender” was put out from it. The tweet was brought down a few minutes later.

Twitter said that all necessary steps were taken to secure the compromised handle.

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The Prime Minister’s Office tweeted, “The Twitter handle of PM @narendramodi was very briefly compromised…In the brief period…any Tweet shared must be ignored.”