The tweets were deleted within 30 minutes and the account has now been restored.
The official Twitter accounts of the congress party and its vice-president Rahul Gandhi appeared to have been hacked on Thursday.
Rahul Gandhi’s account came under a similar attack on Wednesday, with a series of obscene posts on his timeline and abusive tweets were posted the Congress’s account @INCIndia earlier Thursday night. The party’s website inc.in has also been found to be hacked.
Hackers removed Mr Gandhi’s profile picture and changed the title from @OfficeOfRG to Retarded Gandhi.
One of the hacked posts read “My family is a bunch of corrupt f*****g retarded t*** f****sâ€.
The Congress leader has filed a police complaint in connection with the Wednesday attack and he referred it as “a huge question mark on digital security.â€
Congress called the hacking “unscrupulous, unethical and roguish†and blamed internet trolls for the act. A ‘fascist culture’ was behind the act, party spokesperson Randeep Surjewala tweeted.
The tweets were deleted within 30 minutes and the account has now been restored.
@OfficeOfRG account is followed by 1.22 million people on the micro-blogging platform and official congress account has 1.3 million followers as on Thursday.
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