Late-night Wednesday hackers hacked Prime Minister Modi’s personal website twitter accounts. During this time, bitcoin was demanded, however later this account was recovered. Twitter did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment. Modi’s office also did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the tweets posted on the account narendramodi_in....

Twitter says the hack that compromised the accounts of some of its most high-profile users targeted 130 people. The hackers were able to reset the passwords of 45 of those accounts. The San Francisco-based company in a blog post on Saturday said that for up to eight of these accounts, the attackers also downloaded the...

Twitter has shed some light on the unprecedented attack on Wednesday that resulted in numerous takeovers of high-profile accounts including those of President Barack Obama, Democratic candidate Joe Biden, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. In a series of tweets posted under its support channel, Twitter said that its internal systems were compromised by the hackers,...