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Miscreants breach NFL’s Twitter account, reveal its weak password

Miscreants breach NFL’s Twitter account, reveal its weak password

June 8, 2016

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Online miscreants took over the National Football League’s Twitter account and used it to falsely report the death of league commissioner Roger Goodell.

During the brief span that @NFL was taken over, it followed exactly one new Twitter account—@IDissEverything, which has now been suspended. Before the account was suspended, it claimed the password protecting the NFL Twitter feed was “olsen3culvercam88.” The Daily Dot said someone connected to the IDissEverything account claimed the password was revealed after someone managed to get into the e-mail of a social media staffer at the NFL, where we found the credentials in a message.”

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