PM press advisor Prateek Pradhan informed that the handle was out of control.

Pradhan, in a tweet this afternoon, confirmed the hacking and tweeted that no other handles were created by the PM’s office. “Handle @PM_Nepal is out of control. No other account has been started from PM’s office. Will update as soon as things are clear,” he tweeted.

The hacked had tweeted a message at 2 am this morning reading ‘BREAKING NEWS: PM Sushil Koirala’s twitter account has been hacked.’ The post was later deleted.

The account was opened 13 days ago and has over 111,500 followers.