NEW YORK – The National Football League’s Twitter account was hacked on Tuesday and a false tweet was sent that Commissioner Roger Goodell had died, an NFL spokesman said on his Twitter account.
“The @nfl Twitter account was hacked. @nflcommish is alive and well,” league spokesman Brian McCarthy said. McCarthy confirmed to Reuters that the account had been hacked.
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