On Saturday, the Office of the Prime Minister of India reported that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Twitter account had been "very briefly compromised."

“The matter was escalated to Twitter and the account has been immediately secured. In the brief period that the account was compromised, any Tweet shared must be ignored,” the office of Prime Minister said on Twitter.

Several Twitter users shared a screenshot of a tweet from Modi's account, which appeared to have been hacked at the time, claiming that bitcoin had been approved as legal cash.

“India has officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender,” said the post, which also included a hyperlink. “The government has officially bought 500 BTC and is distributing them to all residents of the country.”

A Twitter spokesperson stated the social media site has taken efforts to rectify the problem in a statement.

"We have 24X7 open lines of communication with the PM’s Office and our teams took necessary steps to secure the compromised account as soon as we became aware of this activity. Our investigation has revealed that there are no signs of any other impacted accounts at this time,” a Twitter spokesperson said.

It's unknown how or for how long the Twitter account was hijacked. On the social media network, Modi has over 73 million followers.

According to Twitter, the intrusion into Modi's account was not triggered by a breach of any of the social media platform's systems, according to the company's research.