New Delhi: Nepalese prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s official Twitter account was hacked in the early hours of Thursday. The handle @PM_Nepal carried the profile name ‘Blur’, which appeared to be a Non-Fungible Token Marketplace for Pro Traders.
In his Twitter account, instead of Dahal's profile, the BLUR account, which is a Non-Fungible Token Marketplace for pro-traders, was seen.
The hacked account had the profile picture from the verified account of Blur. Blur's official account on the microblogging platform has 240.3K followers.
In the hacked Twitter account, @PM_Nepal pinned a tweet regarding the NFT which read, "The Summoning has been started. Get your BAKC/SewerPass ready and get down in the pit! https://thesummoning.party."
While there hasn't been any official statement from the PM’s office the account was quickly restored.
The bio was changed to "Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, Government of Nepal." The restored Twitter account has no tweets as of now and has just 1,025 Followers.
Non-fungible token or NFT, as it is commonly known, gained popularity in 2021 a year after its market value reportedly tripled. NFTs are digital assets, and are unique. No two NFTs are the same. What distinguish them from each other are their different unique identification codes and metadata.
NFTs use blockchain to record who owns a digital file, which can be anything from an artwork, image or video to even a text message.
Nepal PM To Hold Vote Of Confidence
Meanwhile, Nepal PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal "Prachanda" will hold a vote of confidence in Parliament on March 20. The second round of vote of confidence comes after Nepal's second largest party in Parliament – CPN-UML – in February decided to withdraw its support to the "Prachanda"-led government in the wake of a renewed political equation in the run-up to the presidential election, dealing a jolt to the two-month-old ruling coalition.
The major reason for the breakup of the alliance between Prachanda and former prime minister K P Sharma Oli was because the Maoist leader decided to support senior Nepali Congress (NC) candidate Ram Chandra Paudel for the President's post.