India, Aug. 16 -- Hijacked accounts of prominent figures were used to promote cryptocurrency scams

We are all living in transient times. Our dependence on the digital environment has begun to start shaping our perspectives. The digital ecosystem is witnessing an alarming and escalating trend that demands immediate legal and policy attention: the systematic compromise and takeover of high-profile accounts on X (formerly Twitter). From journalists to public figures, the list of victims continues to grow, exposing not merely individual vulnerabilities but a deeper structural crisis in platform security architecture. As someone who has tracked the evolution of cyber law jurisprudence for over three decades, I find this pattern deeply symptom...