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

May 31, 2013

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
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