NEW DELHI — A Twitter account connected to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was apparently hacked on Thursday, prompting an investigation by the social media company.

Twitter said it was aware of the activity and had taken steps to secure the compromised account.

"We're aware of this activity and have taken steps to secure the compromised account. We are actively investigating the situation. At this time, we are not aware of additional accounts being impacted," a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement.

For nearly an hour, the verified account — @narendramodi_in — posted several tweets asking people to donate Bitcoin to another account.

"Yes this account is hacked by John Wick," one tweet read in part, seemingly a reference to the action movie character played by Keanu Reeves.

"I appeal to you all to donate generously to PM National Relief Fund for Covid-19, Now India begin with cryptocurrency," another tweet read.

All the tweets have since been deleted.

The account, with more than 2.5m followers, is the official Twitter handle for Modi's personal website.

His personal Twitter account, which was unaffected by this incident, has more than 61m followers.

This is the latest high-profile Twitter security breach after similar attacks in July on US presidential hopeful Joe Biden and Tesla founder Elon Musk. — Agencies