Mallya, who fled to London in March as banks chased him over loan default by now defunct Kingfisher Airlines, said a hacking group called Legion had gained access to his twitter and email accounts and posted those details.
"My account has been hacked by some one called Legion who are Tweeting now in my name. Simply ignore. Will fix this. Outfit called Legion has hacked my e-mail accounts and are blackmailing me!! What a joke," Mallya tweeted earlier this morning.
Mallya seems to have got back the control of his account, and all tweets posted by the hacker have been deleted.
Recently, twitter handles of Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's official account and Congress party were hacked and some expletives-laden tweets were posted.
Mallya, whose defunct Kingfisher Airlines owes more than Rs 9,000 crore to various banks, had left India on March 2. He has been declared proclaimed offender by Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the government is making attempts to extradite him.
Last week, a special anti-money laundering court confirmed an order for attachment of assets worth Rs 1,411 crore issued by the ED against UBHL and others in connection with its money laundering probe against liquor baron Vijay Mallya and others.
The total attachment made by the agency in this case has now shot up to Rs 8,041 crore and this is one of the largest attachment of assets made by ED in a PMLA case till now.
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