The Ministry of Information Technology

The Ministry of Information Technology has asked Twitter to submit details of activities on Rahul Gandhis Twitter account from the last six days, while Delhi police have also launched a probe into the hacking of the accounts.According to a report in NDTV, the Congress has said that Rahul’s email account, party’s website and server were also hacked. The Congress on Thursday raised the issue of digital security after expletives-laden tweets were posted on https://www.dpiflex.com/product/self-adhesive-vinyl.html its Twitter handle in the morning, a day after Rahul’s account was hacked.Congress President Sonia Gandhis political secretary Ahmed Patel also tweeted, "The way @OfficeOfRG a/c got hacked, as cybercrime and Twitter watched helpless raises serious Qs on digital safety, Digital India future.""Those forcing country to adopt online payment overnight, have they taken steps to ensure a/c of ordinary ppl will be immune from hacking?," he also said. CERT-In has authority to collect information stored or communication carried out by any computer in the country for the purpose of cyber security.Surjewala also tweeted, "Pre-meditated hacking of @OfficeOfRG smacks of a sinister conspiracy to abuse and intimidate.45 pm and some messages with profanities were put out, but these were deleted soon thereafter.The official Twitter handle of the Congress was also hacked, on Thursday, with profanities directed at Rahul.Gandhis account was hacked around 8.ANI also quoted its sources in Twitter as saying that tracing IP address of the hacker would be "next to impossible" if he used proxies to hack Congress IT cell. The party said it reflects disturbing insecurities of the prevalent "fascist culture" in the country.New Delhi: Twitter said on Thursday that the official handle of Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi was not hacked, but compromised on Wednesday through an email breach.."We have written to Twitter to provide us log details such as the IP address of the hackers.""Hacking of@OfficeofRG proves lack of Digital safety around each one of us. Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala had filed a complaint with the Economic Offences Wing of the Police around 1 am, an official said. We have started investigating the matter," a senior police official said."Such unscrupulous, unethical and roguish conduct of venal trolls to hack Rahul Gandhis Twitter handle reflects disturbing insecurities of prevalent fascist culture," he said.MEITYs cyber security arm Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) will investigate the matter."Such lowly tactics will neither drown the sane voice of reason nor deter Rahul Gandhi from raising peoples issues," Surjewala had said. Every digital info can be accessed, altered, morphed & modified," the Congress leader said in another tweet. It strengthens our resolve to fight for the Nation