Nuked Espn social media accounts of almost half of the teams in the National Football League, as well as the official NFL account, were hacked.
The NFL accounts were hacked on Sunday and Monday. Many of the hacked tweets promoted the hacker group ourmine. ourmine also took credit for hacking ESPN’s accounts on Tuesday.
Nfl reporter Dov Kleiman collected screenshots of the hacked pages. Kleiman collected many screenshots in this Twitter thread.
Twitter accounts for the @ NFL, chiefs, Packers and @ chicagobears got hacked. The Twitter accounts of the NFL, @ chiefs, and chicagobears were hacked.
Twitter said it locked the hacked accounts as soon as it was made aware of the issue. Most accounts appear to be fully restored.
The NFL’s full statement on the situation is under way. Here is the full statement from the NFL about the situation. Here are the team’s full full statement.
The NFL cybersecurity department became aware of a breach of a league-related social media account. The NFL took immediate action and directed the teams to secure their social media accounts and prevent further unauthorized access. Simultaneously, the league alerted the social media platform providers and secured all league and club accounts.
The NFL and teams are cooperating with its social media platform providers and law enforcement. The NFL is cooperating with the social media network providers.
Many of the hacked NFL tweets were sent from a social media tool called khoros. khoros said that its platform was not compromised.
Social media posts from ESPN accounts that were apparently posted by ourmine appear to have been deleted already. Espn’s social media accounts seem to have already been deleted.
Espn’s social media accounts were briefly compromised. We have taken immediate action and are actively working to assess the issue and prevent further unauthorized access.
ourmine also took responsibility for hacking the Twitter and Instagram accounts shortly after compromising ESPN’s accounts. ourmine also taken responsibility for the hacking.
ourmine has claimed responsibility for recent hacks. The UFC’s official Twitter account has been hacked by hacker group ourmine.
ourmine has taken credit for hacking social media accounts owned by Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Sundar Pichai, and HBO. There had n’t been a reported hack by the group since 2017.
