Twitter Inc mentioned this 7 days accounts of numerous Nationwide Soccer League (NFL) groups, like the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs, were being hacked, forward of the Super Bowl on Sunday.
The social media corporation mentioned it had locked the compromised accounts and was investigating the problem.
The official Twitter account of Eco-friendly Bay Packers was hacked by an entity contacting by itself “OurMine”, which in the previous has been connected to hacking of Netflix and Sony Music’s Twitter handles.
“We are below to Demonstrate people today that all the things is hackable,” element of the tweet read through.
Super Bowl, the most significant televised celebration of the calendar year in The us for which shut to a hundred million US viewers tune in, is established for February 2 in Miami where by the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs will facial area off.