Veteran lyricist Javed Akhtar’s X account gets hacked; Warns about 'harmless' Paris Olympics message

MUMBAI: On Monday morning, veteran screenwriter Javed Akhtar told his followers that some miscreants had hacked his X handle. Additionally, he disclosed that a seemingly "harmless" statement regarding the Indian Olympic team was not uploaded by him and warned internet users not to believe it.

Interestingly, Akhtar revealed on the microblogging platform itself that his X handle had been hacked. "My X ID is hacked. There is a message ostensibly from my account about our Indian team for the Olympics. It is totally harmless but not sent by me. We are in the process of complaining to the concerned authorities in X," he wrote.

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However, the 'message' that Akhtar shared seems to have been removed because it is no longer available on his timeline.

"Change your password immediately," a user advised, while another wrote, "Hopefully, the issue will be resolved soon".

Akhtar is known to be quite active on his X account and he often faces the ire of the netizens for his controversial tweets and social commentary. Recently, he was seen getting into a verbal spat with another X user, after he criticised the screenwriter for his rant against Israel.

He wrote, "So now Israel is justifying its indiscriminate round the clock bombing on helpless civilians of Gaza by giving example of Hiroshima and Nagasaki . !!! .. and the so-called civilised world is listening. They are the same people who teach us human rights."

“I have always condemned all kind of terrorism . Mob terrorism , bomb terrorism , state terrorism . But you will choose not to understand me Avinash because you are a pathetic nobody who is trying to find an identity by becoming a bigot .”

They are not innocent civilians as it is portrayed, fact remains they are bloody terrorist sympathisers & give shalter to them.

— Avinash Srivastava(@go4avinash) November 1, 2023

A user replied, "They are not innocent civilians as it is portrayed, fact remains they are bloody terrorist sympathisers & give shalter to them (sic)." 
The lyricist responded to the user by clarifying, "I have always condemned all kind of terrorism . Mob terrorism , bomb terrorism , state terrorism . But you will choose not to understand me Avinash because you are a pathetic nobody who is trying to find an identity by becoming a bigot."

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Credits – Free Press Journal