Sriki hacked Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account, says chargesheet

In a hacking case that could have political ramifications, notorious hacker Srikrishna Ramesh alias Sriki hacked into Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account and reset the passwords.

According to the charge sheet filed against the hacker, the incident occurred in 2016.

Apart from Rahul Gandhi, Sriki allegedly hacked into the accounts of media firm NDTV, fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya and journalist Barkha Dutt’s websites and twitter accounts.

Sriki hacked into the Net4India data centre in December 2016, using a “remote code execution vulnerability”. The data centre had hosted all the sites and domain names, using which he hacked into the accounts of Rahul and others.