Twitter account of Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) Arvind Subramanian was hacked on Monday evening. After half an hour, the tweets were deleted and CEA clarified: “My twitter account was hacked. My profuse apologies for the nuisance/offensive tweets that were sent out as a result.”How does the account get hacked? Here are some ways in which an account can be hacked or tweets be posted from an account:1. User logins to Twitter on a public computer, forgets to log out, and a bypasser gets access to the account.

Source: The Hindu October 17, 2016 13:15 UTC