Twitter stated that the Twitter handles of many National Football League clubs, comprising the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs, were compromised, heading to the Super Bowl on Sunday.
Twitter told it had secured the negotiated accounts and was examining the situation. The verified Twitter account of Green Bay Packers was compromised by an object naming itself “OurMine”, which in the events has been connected to hacking of Netflix and Sony Music’s Twitter accounts.
Super Bowl, the largest televised competition of the year in America for which close to 100 million US watchers attune in, is set for February 2 in Miami where the Kansas City Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers will face against each other.
