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January 28, 2020 09:24 pm

Hackers hijacked nearly half of the NFLs Twitter accounts, and theyre still going


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The social media accounts of several NFL teams and one belonging to the NFL were hacked, the NFL said in a statement today. Nearly half of the teams in the league had their Twitter accounts hacked on Sunday and Monday, and the hacker group OurMine has taken responsibility for the hacks, according to the BBC. Over the past hour, OurMine has apparently hacked Twitter accounts owned by ESPN and UFC, and may not be finished yet.


Many of the hacked tweets promoted OurMine, announcing that the hacking collective is “back” and that “everything is hackable.” NFL reporter Dov Kleiman collected many screenshots of the hacked pages in this Twitter thread.






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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/28/21112015/nfl-ourmine-hack-social-media-twitter-facebook-instagram-accounts

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