SEC issues statement on Twitter hacking
By Hunter Cooke
Major sports organizations cannot seem to keep their Twitter accounts under control.
On NFL draft night, projected overall No. 1 pick Laremy Tunsil lost control of his Twitter account. The hacker posted pictures of Tunsil smoking marijuana out of a gas mask bong. On June 7, the NFL lost control of its Twitter account, falsely claiming to the glee of some that commissioner Roger Goodell was dead.
Less than a month after the NFL lost control of its social media presence, the SEC lost control of theirs.
The unknown hacker posted vaguely pornographic images of scantily clad women all over the SEC’s Twitter feed. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey addressed the issue almost immediately.
The SEC immediately changed their passwords, deleted the images, and notified Twitter support. It’s currently unknown whether the hacks of the NFL and SEC accounts are related or not.
I’m unsure why anyone would hack the SEC’s twitter account, and honestly, I’m disappointed that they just posted pornographic spam. They couldn’t make a quick Paul Finebaum joke? They couldn’t shoot a reply or a retweet to Stingray?
The humor value in the SEC’s hacker compared to the NFL hacker is just bad. A report saying that Will Muschamp is secretly pure rage condensed into human form would have been funnier than softcore porn.
Another looming question: what was the SEC’s password? I’m assuming it wasn’t “nicksabanandurbanmeyercarriedourconference”, because that would be too long. “wesecretlywanttosawFloridaoffandwatchthemfloatintotheGulfofMexico” is too long as well.
Was it something simple, like “lolB1G”? I’m assuming that we’ll never know.
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