NFL Twitter account hacked soon after Drake's, Twitter 'checking' into leaks

Many high-profile Twitter accounts have been hacked in recent days. The most recent hacks include the official account of the NFL and musician Drake.

Someone took control of the NFL's account shortly after 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday and sent a tweet saying commissioner Roger Goodell had died. Although the tweet was quickly deleted, it was retweeted more than 2,000 times, and some twitter users shared screenshots they had captured.

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At least two other tweets have since been deleted. It appears the NFL's social media team locked down the account soon after it was compromised.

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It all started with Mark Zuckerberg, whose Twitter and Pinterest accounts were hacked Sunday. Zuckerberg hasn't used his Twitter account in four years, so people took note when tweets appeared under his name, quickly surmising that they weren't penned by the CEO of Facebook.

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The same thing appeared to happen to the artist Drake on Monday, although instead of just gloating about the fact that they were able to hack the account, Drake's hacker used the opportunity to plug another Twitter account and a Snapchat account.

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The Twitter user that was plugged, @2aiden3, has since had their account suspended, likely because Twitter suspects they were the hacker. The tweets from Drake's account have since been deleted but got a lot of traction while they were up.

In response to these recent security breaches, Twitter Support tweeted that the company is going to cross check its own data with data from recent password leaks. 

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This tweet could be referencing the recent release of data from the 2013 hacks of LinkedIn, MySpace, Tumblr and more, but for now it's unclear. If Twitter finds matches between the stolen data from those sites and its own data, it may contact affected users about changing their passwords.

To be safe for now, you may want to change up your Twitter password, especially if you use the same password between multiple social media accounts.

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