The district administration had to face serious problems when the official Twitter account of Rawalpindi’s Deputy Commissioner was hacked at midnight between Wednesday and Thursday during the heart-wrenching Murree incident investigation.
The account was hacked for over 10 hours. On Thursday, the control of DC’s official Twitter account was taken away from the hackers with the help of the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB).
The hackers took full control of the DC’s official Twitter account and changed it to the Bureau of Crypto Coin Currency for 10 hours.
The district administration faced severe problems due to the non-publicity of its performance through social media. Users accessing information from the district administration's Twitter handle also suffered.
The district administration informed the Punjab government about the matter and regained control of the Twitter handle, for which the services of IT experts of the provincial government were acquired.
The district administration spokesman said the deputy commissioner had regained control of Rawalpindi's official Twitter account, while also reporting to the Twitter administration against the hackers.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 14th, 2022.
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