NFL Account Hacked, Falsely Reports Goodell's Death

NBC Bay Area ^

[nickcarraway]

A NFL spokesman says Goodell "is alive and well"

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is not dead.

The National Football League's Twitter account was hacked Tuesday and a message posted around 12:30 pm. ET said Goodell has died.

"We regret to inform our fans that our commissioner, Roger Goodell, has passed away. He was 57. #RIP," the tweet read.

The NFL Commissioner's Office confirmed to NBC the account was hacked.

Additional messages were posted after the first false tweet.

"Oi, I said Roger Goodell has died. Don't delete that tweet," one message read, followed by, "OK, OK, you amateur detectives win. Good job."

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy confirmed the hack in a tweet, adding Goodell "is alive and well."

[nickcarraway]

This wasn't very creative for hacking into it. They should have had him admit he is Robert Kraft's butler.

[stormer]

[FXRP]

Tom Brady is a computer hacker as well! Nicely done Tom!

[raccoonradio]

CNBC bottom of screen headline reported
this.Password was probably easily guessed
like “BradySucks”.Presumably they changed
the password after deleting the tweet.

[RayChuang88]

Somebody said that the hack came from that gigantic break-in of LinkedIn accounts from 2014. I wouldn't be surprised that Twitter forces ALL users to reset their account passwords over the next few days.