Mumbai: The Oshiwara police’s cyber team on Monday recovered filmmaker Sudhir Mishra’s hacked X account, days after he complained that he had lost access to it.
The police traced the account history and verified Mishra’s identity, focusing on the 12:53am breach and an unauthorised email change from sudhirmishra.sudhir@gmail.com to valid9031@outlook.com. The team then coordinated with X’s backend processes to reverse the changes.
Police identify midnight breach and unauthorised email change linked to account takeover
Mishra, a three-time National Award winner, had earlier said X support rejected his recovery request as it could not validate that the account belonged to him.
After regaining access, Mishra thanked Mumbai Police and Oshiwara police’s cyber team, naming senior inspector Sanjay Chavan, sub-inspector Vijay Suresh Sardesai, assistant sub-inspector Ashok Konde and constable Vikram Sarnobat.
In his complaint, Mishra said he was suddenly logged out. X notifications showed an unauthorised iPhone login around 12:53am, after which a security key was added and his registered email address was changed.
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