By IANS
NEW DELHI: The Special Cell of Delhi Police has registered an First Information Report (FIR) in reference to hacking of the University Grants Commission’s official Twitter deal with.
According to the FIR copy accessed by IANS, the UGC’s Twitter deal with was hacked on April 10 at roughly 1.30 a.m. within the evening.
UGCA is a statutory physique arrange by the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Government of India for the coordination, dedication and upkeep of requirements of instructing, examination and analysis in college schooling.
A criticism was additionally lodged with the micro-blogging web site Twitter, which instantly supplied regained entry to the UGC deal with. The hackers had posted round 24,000 spam tweets, which Twitter stated should be deleted manually. Notably, the official Twitter account of UGC has 2,98,704 followers.
Accordingly, based mostly on the criticism of UGC’s SWAYAM venture IT advisor Abhishek Kumar Anand, the police registered an FIR underneath part 66, 66C of the IT Act on the Special Cell police station.
A Delhi Police official stated that the matter has been introduced into the discover of senior officers. “Probe is underway,” the official added.
