Air India’s official Twitter account hacked, airline says ‘fully functional now’

Earlier Air India had issued a statement saying: “The Air India official twitter handle @airtindiain has been hacked late last night with a malafide intent to mislead passengers. Air India immediately swung into action and took up the matter with the twitter authorities. All malicious content was removed on a war-footing. It is expected that normalcy would be restored soon. All Air India flights are operating as per schedule. Passengers are requested to ignore any misleading qand mischievous communication on our operations.”

Pro-Turkish tweets were shared on the account, one of the tweet read, “Your account has been hacked by the Turkish cyber army Ayyildiz Tim. Your DM correspondence and important data have been captured.”

Another tweet, which was pinned to the page read, “Last minute important announcement: All our flights have been cancelled. From now we will fly with Turkish Airlines.”

The hackers changed the official Air India Twitter handle (@airindiain) to @airindiaTR.

The Twitter handle of Air India, which has over thousands of followers, was been overridden by I ayyıldızt group which claims to be a Turkish Cypriot Army on their Twitter handle. Twitter also removed the verified mark from the Air India handle after its name was changed by the hackers.

(With inputs from ANI)