Legal Recourse for a Professional Athlete, or Ex-Player, Who Had His Twitter Account Hacked

By Richart Ruddie   Each and every day, thousands of Twitter users have their accounts hacked. The hacker, who is often someone with a grievance against the account owner, will assume the identity of the owner. From there, the hacker will begin posting defamatory or false remarks, usually as a means of drawing controversy towards the owner. Usually, the real-life consequences of such hacks are rather small, but when a professional athlete with millions of followers gets hacked, the results