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February 8, 2020 12:08 am

The NFL account hijackers just compromised Facebooks Twitter and Instagram accounts




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Several of Facebook’s Twitter and Instagram accounts were hijacked this evening, and the group taking credit is the same one that said it hacked NFL and ESPN social media accounts last week.


A group calling itself OurMine has made multiple posts on Facebook’s Twitter account, as well as on its separate Messenger account. The Verge has observed the same tweet posted multiple times before being quickly deleted. Here is what the posts have looked like:





The same message was also posted to the official Messenger handle on Twitter:





Twitter provided the following statement:


Confirming the account was hacked through a third-party platform. As soon as we were made aware of the issue, we locked the compromised account...



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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/7/21128779/facebook-twitter-messenger-account-ourmine-hacked-nfl

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