Control over Dmitri Medvedev's Twitter account has been restored after a hacking incident, APA reports citing press service of the Russian Cabinet of Ministers.
"Indeed, the account was hacked. Control over the account has been restored," the press service said.
Earlier, Medvedev's followers noticed two odd messages featuring a seemingly random set of English words and Latin script letters, which have since been deleted. One of the messages read "Vk mho cucumber uovunpniophvoui." The other read "Hop cc very very very hubby cheers cheers her very vav chi hi."
The tweets were a response to Iraqi diplomat Haidar M Hadi, who had written a post about the ceremonial reception of foreign ambassadors in the Kremlin in honour of Russia Day, which Medvedev attended. The hack is not the first time that a social media account used by Medvedev has been compromised. In April 2013, hackers managed to temporarily gain access to his account on VKontakte, a popular Russian social media site similar to Facebook. In August 2014, the prime minister's Twitter account was hacked. Medvedev is an avid social media user and has an estimated 12 million subscribers across his Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and VKontakte accounts.
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