According to a party statement, the AIMIM's Twitter account has now been restored
Asaduddin Owaisi. File Pic/PTI
The official Twitter account of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) was hacked on for a few hours and was later restored, party sources said.
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The hackers changed the Twitter profile name from AIMIM to 'Elon Musk' and the profile picture of the handle was replaced with that of the Tesla CEO. According to a party statement, the AIMIM Twitter account which was hacked on Sunday afternoon has been restored.
The same account was hacked a few days ago but was restored, sources said adding the account was again hacked at around 1 pm. "Nine days ago also the Twitter account of AIMIM was hacked but we communicated to Twitter and the account was restored. Now again the account has been hacked," a spokesperson of the Hyderabad-headquartered party, said. A complaint to Hyderabad Police will be lodged on July 19.
"No new tweets were posted on the account, he said. AIMIM's Twitter handle has about 6.78 lakh followers.
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