Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Supriya Sule said on Monday that she was being blackmailed after hackers demanded $400 from her team by sending a message following the hacking of her WhatsApp account.

Baramati MP added,“The party general secretary Aditi Nalawade's WhatsApp was also hacked. Hackers demanded ?10,000 from her. We tried to keep them engaged by agreeing to pay. They had even shared account details of a bank for transferring money.”

On Sunday, Sule announced that her phone and WhatsApp had been hacked and urged people not to contact her. 

"Urgent: My phone and WhatsApp have been hacked. Please do not call or text me. I have reached out to the police for help," the Lok Sabha MP said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

The NCP (SP) leader called the issue “very serious” adding that she has nothing to hide in her phone. She filed a complaint at Yavat police station and spoke to the superintendent of police Pankaj Deshmukh who assured her of a thorough investigation.

In a later post on Sunday, she said: “My phone and WhatsApp have started. The WhatsApp team provided valuable support. A big thank you to Team WhatsApp and Pune rural police for this. If anyone has messaged me in the meantime, I apologise for not being able to reply due to this technical glitch.”