‘Hacked’ Official Twitter Handle of Puri Dist Admin ‘Restored’

Puri: The official Twitter handle of Puri District Administration which was hacked by cyber fraudsters has been restored after the authorities raised a complaint with the microblogging site.

The Puri District Admin’s official Twitter handle –@Puri_Official was hacked and renamed to “Yin Yang Gang”. The hackers had also posted some irrelevant posts on the account.

While there was no repose from District Collector and SP over the issue, earlier this evening Bhabatarana Sahoo, sub-collector had said that the district administration has registered a complaint in this regard with Twitter support to resolve it.

While Puri Additional Collector Pradeep Sahu stated that strict action will be taken against whoever has hacked the official Twitter handle of the district administration, Puri Additional SP Mihir Panda said that no FIR was filed by the district administration in this regard.

As per the latest report received at around 10 PM on Saturday (Sept 10), the official Twitter handle of Puri District Administration has been restored after about 24 hours and the spam posts have now been deleted.