3 other Twitter hacks in sports
It didn't mark the first time a professional sports figure or organization claimed its Twitter account was hacked, and it likely won't be the last.
The NFL fell victim to hackers Tuesday, and the perpetrators chose to fake commissioner Roger Goodell's death.
Related: NFL looking into Twitter hack of fake post about Goodell
Here are three other cases of hacked accounts - or so the "victims" claimed - around the sports world in recent memory:
Laremy Tunsil
The talented offensive tackle was widely projected as a top-five pick heading into April's NFL draft, but multiple social media hacks on draft night dropped him to the Miami Dolphins at No. 13.
Ten minutes before the draft began, Tunsil's Twitter account shared a video of the lineman taking a bong hit while wearing a gas mask.
Later that night, his Instagram account posted a screencapped text conversation that appeared to show him asking coaches for money, which he then admitted to in a post-draft press conference before being promptly whisked away.
Kurt Rambis
The former New York Knicks interim head coach's Twitter account was caught liking an X-rated tweet in February, and team later insisted he wasn't to blame.
"Kurt did not like those items on his Twitter page and we worked with Twitter to make sure the situation did not happen again," Knicks PR man Jonathan Supranowitz said at the time.
Rambis eventually unliked the tweet but continued following two pornographic accounts.
FIFA and Sepp Blatter
The disgraced former FIFA president was the subject of an apparent Twitter hack more than two years before the scandal that ultimately led to his removal from soccer's governing body.
Blatter's account was compromised in April 2013, along with the official Twitter account of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Tweets sent by hackers calling themselves the Syrian Electronic Army included such quips as, "So what if I took money from (a) Qatari prince? I am the family's bread earner" (referring to the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar) and, "The royal family has done much for #FIFA, I am sure Jordan will make an excellent host for 2030."
The hackers also "announced" Blatter's resignation, tabbed Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan as his successor, and used the hashtags #Bribery, #Murderer and #Thief with a picture of the former Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani holding the World Cup trophy.