Earlier this morning, the University of Michigan’s Athletics Twitter page addressed the provocative photos on their basketball and football forums on Facebook and later confronted the situation and confirmed the rumor that, in fact, they were
Fans of U-M Athletics: We want to acknowledge that our Facebook pages for Michigan Football, Basketball, and Athletics have been hacked.
— Michigan Football (@UMichFootball) August 12, 2015
So @umichfootball on facebook seems to be hacked? pic.twitter.com/RCt1kpoasc
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) August 12, 2015
Occupying the basketball and football pages were over two dozen celebrities on the red carpet, over a baker’s dozen of controversial Miley Cyrus photos and images of Kim Kardashian flaunting her figure in the mirror with a bikini.
Other criteria of the hack, which was triggered early Wednesday morning, involved a nuance of spam messages, including:
The security, IT and athletics departments all acknowledged the issue and declared they have been isolating and diagnosing the hack.
Although the hacker’s identification is undetermined, speculation will tear logic from its seams and people will point fingers at either a disgruntled Ohio State fan or Brady Hoke, who was replaced with a head coach candidate that’s familiar to winning.
Just kidding. Brady Hoke’s probably a nice guy and had no involvement in this.
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