"We are probing the incident (hacking of Gandhi's account)," a MEITY official said in response to a PTI query.
Gandhi's official account on social media site Twitter was hacked on Wednesday night and again this morning. Miscreants posted some expletives-laden tweets, which were later deleted.
The name of the verified Twitter handle "@OfficeOfRG" was also changed.
The Congress party's official Twitter account too was compromised earlier today.
MEITY's cyber security arm Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) will investigate the matter.
Sources at Twitter said there was no security breach at their end, but the accounts may have been compromised through breach of e-mail.
They added that the company was contacted by Congress in the matter but it is yet to receive any communication from the government.
The Congress party has filed a complaint with the Cyber Cell of Delhi Police on the hacking of its Vice President's Twitter account.
"Hacking of @OfficeofRG proves lack of digital safety around each one of us. Every digital info can be accessed, altered, morphed and modified," Congress' Chief Spokesperson Randeep Surjewala tweeted.
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