After Rahul Gandhi, official Congress Twitter account hacked

If you thought that Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s official Twitter account getting hacked was possibly a one-off incident, we have news for you. It seems lightning can fall twice on the same spot, or rather on the same Twitter handle. Or actually, the Twitter handle of the political party Gandhi is associated with.

Okay, if the analogy was too convoluted for you to figure it out, here’s what happened: the official Twitter account of the Congress party fell into the hands of hackers this morning, threatening to release internal emails of the party, and, well calling Rahul Gandhi a “silly retarded t**t”. The hackers, referring to themselves as “Legion”, also tweeted they do not have any “political agenda”.

While the identity of the hacker(s) is unknown, they seem to be fans of hip-hop artist Lowkey as they tweeted out lyrics from his song “Voices of the Voiceless”. And for some reason, they tweeted a shout out to Jim Jones; whether it was meant for another hip-hop artist of the same name or the American cult leader who led his followers to mass suicide, it’s hard to tell. 

The account was in the hands of the hackers for nearly 45 minutes. At 11 am, a tweet about Non Performing Assets of public sector banks went out from the INC account, confirming that “Legion” had left the building.

This hack comes less than twelve hours after Rahul Gandhi’s official Twitter account was compromised, prompting several Congress leaders like Ahmed Patel, Randeep Surjewala and Ajay Maken to question the “lack of digital safety”.

The bhakts saw this as a conspiracy to besmirch Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India initiative and consequently theorised that the hack was an inside job by the Congress to make the government look bad.

Of course, if the hacker really is “a disgruntled recently sacked employee”, as journalist Swati Chaturvedi claims, one has to wonder: what sort of people is the Congress recruiting? Someone who admires a cult leader (or his mediocre rapper namesake), thinks homophobic jokes are funny and likes to mock people with disabilities, apparently. And clearly, someone who lacks a real sense of humour.