Lagatar24 Desk
Kathmandu, March 16: Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s official Twitter handle @PM_Nepal was hacked in the early hours of Thursday.
After being hacked, the PM’s official Twitter ID, ‘@PM_nepal_’ carried the profile name ‘Blur’, which is a Non-Fungible Token Marketplace for Pro Traders is seen. The account had 690.1K followers.
Moreover, the bio of the account reads, “The NFT marketplace for pro traders. Backed by @Paradigm. Season 2 now LIVE. Discord: http://discord.gg/blurdao”
In the hacked Twitter account, @PM_Nepal pinned a tweet regarding the NFT which read, “The Summoning has been started. Get your BAKC/SewerPass ready and get down in the pit!”
The display picture of the hacked account was of the verified account of Blur. Blur’s official account on the microblogging platform has 240.3K followers.
As per information, the account was soon restored, after which the bio was changed to ‘Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, Government of Nepal.’ The restored Twitter account has no tweets and has just 1,013 followers.
However, no official statement was made on hacking the Nepalese prime minister’s Twitter handle.
