Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev\u2019s Twitter account was hacked and the tweet about his resignation is untrue, Medvedev\u2019s press service told RIA Novosti.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Medvedev\u2019s] Twitter was hacked, the tweet on his resignation is false. We\u2019re working on the problem,\u201d the press service said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m resigning,\u201d appeared on Medvedev\u2019s microblog Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
Medvedev\u2019s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said it was most likely a hacker attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t have any information, but I\u2019m pretty sure that this was a hacker,\u201d Peskov said.<\/p>\n
The press service said they are investigating the technical aspects of the attack, while the details are at present unknown. The posts made on Thursday after the hacking of the account have been deleted.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev joined Twitter in 2010.<\/p>\n
Medvedev assumed the post of prime minister on May 8, 2012, after serving as the third president of the Russian Federation from 2008 to 2012.<\/p>\n
Source: RIA Novosti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev\u2019s Twitter account was hacked and the tweet about his resignation is untrue, Medvedev\u2019s press service told RIA Novosti. \u201c[Medvedev\u2019s] Twitter was hacked, the tweet on his resignation is false. We\u2019re working on the problem,\u201d the press service said. \u201cI\u2019m resigning,\u201d appeared on Medvedev\u2019s microblog Thursday morning. Medvedev\u2019s press secretary Dmitry … Continue reading “Medvedev’s resignation tweet false”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[9700,9699,9626,66,429],"class_list":["post-15203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-hacked-account","tag-prime-minister-dmitry-medvedev","tag-resignation","tag-russia","tag-twitter"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15204,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15203\/revisions\/15204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}