New Delhi, Nov 30 (Agencies): Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's official twitter account was hacked on Wednesday, and expletives and abuses were posted on the handle. The abusive tweets were later deleted.
One of the illegal posts had abusive language like "My family is a bunch of corrupt....(expletives) retarded... (expletives)".
The hackers also removed Rahul's profile picture and changed the title of the account from @OfficeOfRG to an abusive one.
Confirming the development, his office said efforts were being made to rectify the problem.
"Rahul Gandhi's Twitter handle has been hacked. We will file a complaint with the Cyber Cell of city police," Pranav Jha, media coordinator, Congress, told IANS.
Gandhi's account was hacked around 8.45 PM and some messages with profanities were put out, but these were deleted soon thereafter.