Amrita Rao’s social media account hacked

As you read this, Amrita Rao and her social media team are writing to Twitter India. The actress’ social media account was hacked into a few days ago, while she was recovering from a viral infection. When we reached out to her, she told us. “It all happened last week. I got a DM (direct message) from a leading TV channel’s account, stating that they want to publish an article about me, but they need my approval for it. My social media team opened the link. It asked for the password of my account, and then it didn’t lead anywhere. Eventually, I was locked out of my own Twitter account, and despite all our efforts to log in again, we couldn’t access it again. Nothing worked although we followed the procedure that’s mentioned on the website.”

Amrita’s team has now decided to report the activity to Twitter officials. If the company suggests, Amrita is also willing to reach out to the

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cell and report the incident. She added, “I get messages every day that there is some suspicious activity on my account, but I can’t log in. We waited to reach out to Twitter officials because I wasn’t well. It also took us a little bit of time to realise that this is a serious problem. A few months ago, I got a similar link from Tusshar’s account. He’s an actor and a buddy. My team didn’t open the link, and when we asked him, he told us he hadn’t sent anything and that his account had been hacked into as well. So, someone is operating with a clear plan. My worry right now is that people who I follow or who follow me may get unexplained messages from my account, which can lead to their accounts getting hacked. It’s detrimental to all of us and an intrusion of privacy.”