U-M football, hoops Facebook pages hacked (again)

The Facebook pages of Michigan football and basketball were hacked again around lunchtime today, the second occurrence in about 12 hours when posts with explicit content, entertainment and gossip replaced the usual news about the teams.

At about 8:30 tonight, the Michigan Football Facebook page posted this message:
"Our partners at Facebook have advised us that our social pages are now stable. Out of extreme caution we will monitor all of our platforms throughout the evening and hope to return to normal operations shortly.

"We suggest a computer scan for anyone who has clicked on any third-party link from our Michigan Athletics, football or men's basketball pages between the hours of 3am and 4pm today. We have no indication that any of our other Michigan accounts across all social platforms have been compromised.
"Thanks once again for your continued support and patience. ‪#‎GoBlue‬."

Before the second hack, Michigan had apologized for the offensive content in a released statement and said that the situation had been resolved.

"Early this morning, Facebook accounts for Michigan Athletics, football and men's basketball were compromised," the school said before the second attack. "Thanks to diligent work on behalf of our partners at the University of Michigan and at Facebook, we have resolved the situation and deleted any offensive posts.

"We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate the support of our audiences throughout this issue. We greatly value our connections through social media. We continue to monitor our pages and will work with our partners to expedite all inquiries. Thanks for your patience and ‪#‎GoBlue‬."
The school maintains many social media feeds for its programs, on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The Twitter and Instagram pages appeared to be unaffected by the breach.

The hack had a wide reach. Michigan football's Facebook page has 1.4 million likes, which means the posts could have appeared in the "news feed" of all of those users. The men's basketball page is liked by 438,000 users.