The NFL account hijackers just compromised Facebook’s Twitter and Instagram accounts

• February 8, 2020

Several of Facebook’s Twitter and Instagram accounts were hijacked this evening, and the group taking credit is the same one that said it hacked NFL and ESPN social media accounts last week.

A group calling itself OurMine has made multiple posts on Facebook’s Twitter account, as well as on its separate Messenger account. The Verge has observed the same tweet posted multiple times before being quickly deleted. Here is what the posts have looked like:

The same message was also posted to the official Messenger handle on Twitter:

Twitter provided the following statement:

Confirming the account was hacked through a third-party platform. As soon as we were made aware of the issue, we locked the compromised account and are working closely with our partners at Facebook to restore them.

OurMine also appeared to hijack the official Facebook and Messenger Instagram accounts:

To be clear, what OurMine is claiming here is a little misleading. Facebook itself is not being hacked here, and it doesn’t appear that Twitter is, either. The tweets seem to have been sent by a third-party service called Khoros, which is what was also used to send the hijacked tweets from the NFL accounts.

Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Several of Facebook’s Twitter and Instagram accounts were hijacked this evening, and the group taking credit is the same one that said it hacked NFL and ESPN social media accounts last week. A group calling itself OurMine has made multiple posts on Facebook’s Twitter account, as well as on its…