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<\/a>\u201cAs far twitter account of Rahul Gandhi is concerned, when it came to my notice, I took it very seriously. Twitter representative of India was contacted and all offending tweets were removed,\u201d Ravi Shankar Prasad said.<\/p>\n
While raising the issue, Congress sought to caution the Modi government over its pitch for shifting to online banking transactions following concern over digital safety.<\/p>\n
Congress President Sonia Gandhi\u2019s political secretary Ahmed Patel tweeted, \u201cThe way @OfficeOfRG a\/c got hacked, as cybercrime and Twitter watched helpless raises serious Q\u2019s on digital safety, Digital India future.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThose forcing country to adopt online payment overnight, have they taken steps to ensure a\/c of ordinary ppl will be immune from hacking?,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Later, in a statement, Surjewala said,\u201dTime has come for Modi government, which speaks of cashless economy, to ponder over these important imponderables that have exposed the susceptibility of the entire digital financial platforms. We sincerely hope that Modi government will provide the relevant answers to people of India.\u201d<\/p>\n
The statement dubbed as a \u201cpredetermined conspiracy\u201d and systematic attack on free speech and right to disagree the hacking of its Twitter account and of Rahul Gandhi and raised questions on the safety of the entire digital payment network as also of privacy.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery right thinking Indian is shocked by such despotic and vulgar attempts, which reflect the extremities of a growing intolerant culture around us that resorts to abuse and insult every time it lacks answers to the questioned raised by those who disagree with their point of view,\u201d Surjewala said in the statement.<\/p>\n
BJP national secretary Shrikant Sharma too issued a statement, saying Congress should understand that if the twitter account of Rahul Gandhi or the party has been hacked, the fault lies with Twitter\u2019s security feature and not with BJP.<\/p>\n
\u201cCongress should desist from such petty politics or after losing people\u2019s support it will now fall in their eyes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Surjewala also said the Indian National Congress\u2019 internal email server is under a sustained hacking attack because of which some of our Twitter accounts were compromised.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwitter has restored access for some of them and is working with us in keeping the accounts safe. We are taking necessary measures to stop this hack in the earnest,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Why Rahul Gandhi or the Congress techies did not enforce a two-factor authentication at the first instance of hacking is anybody\u2019s guess. It is usually a norm and a good way to stop further damage, just saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Indian Information & Broadcasting Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu (l), Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi (r), and other MPs come out Parliament House in New Delhi, Nov. 30. (Kamal Singh\/PTI) After hacking Rahul Gandhi\u2019s Twitter and email accounts twice in as many days, hackers broke into Congress Party\u2019s account, Dec. 1, and posted profanities, prompting the…<\/p>\n