Twitter account of UGC hacked, 3rd govt account targeted in 2 days

April 10: The official Twitter account of the University Grants Commission (UGC) was hacked in the early hours of Sunday. The hackers changed the display picture and background picture of UGC India’s Twitter handle. After hacking the UGC Twitter account, several tweets related to NFT’s were made from the account. The account has now been restored.

The hacker also changed the profile picture to an animated picture instead of the logo it was using. The Twitter handle of UGC has around 2,96,000 followers at present. The hackers had changed the bio and made posts with links to NFTs and other cryptocurrency-related content.

The hacker pinned a tweet on the account, which read, “In celebration for the reveal of the Beanz Official Collection, we have opened up an airdrop to all active NFT traders in the community for the next 24 hours! Welcome to the Garden.”

UGC India's official Twitter account hacked. pic.twitter.com/t37ui8KNuC

— ANI (@ANI) April 9, 2022

It is the third hacking in the past few days. Earlier on Saturday, the Twitter handle of the Meteorological Department was hacked by hackers for more than 2 hours. At the same time, earlier on Friday late night, the Twitter handle of UP CM Yogi Adityanath’s office was hacked. It was hacked for about 29 minutes.