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An Anonymous Coward writes:

Hackers took over the National Football League's (USA) twitter account for about nine minutes on Tuesday, posting a tweet falsely announcing Commissioner Roger Goodell's death [techinsider.io] at age 57. The Twitter community seemed to take the development in stride, quickly running up the retweet count into the thousands before the original was deleted. But the hackers managed to post a couple snarky follow-ups before exiting.

The TechInsider piece reports receiving email from the hacker group Peggle Crew afterwards claiming responsibility (credit?) for the hack; the hacker revealed the 'lame' password used to protect the NFL account (see TFA).

As previously reported, the Twitter account of Laremy Tunsil was hacked [soylentnews.org] several weeks ago, on the night of the NFL draft, with disastrous consequences for the highly touted college prospect. That hack was probably done by someone who knew Tunsil personally, though.

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