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‘Cricket South Africa’ Facebook Page Was Hacked, Hackers Posted Explicit Content

Soon after the South African team lost the Test series to India, they had to face a critical problem over its Official Facebook Page. Unknown people had hacked the Facebook page ‘Cricket South Africa.’ The hackers didn’t stop hacking the page, they also posted few sexual posts within hours. Immediately after knowing the matter, the Cricket South Africa officials took to Twitter to apologize the users about the posts.

People who all are following the page were given a rude shock when they featured the sexual posts in the official page. The Facebook page has so far three million likes. The news has soon passed in the social networking sites. Thus, it made Cricket South Africa to force to give apologies to the users.

Now the officials regained their control of the page within a short span of time. It still remains unclear if the association was targeted or was a victim of a random cyber breach. CSA said an unidentified hacker gained access to their page and removed all of their officials from the list of administrators. The organization says they’ve confirmed to all the privacy settings on the website and have also emailed Facebook staff in the United States to query what happened.

CSA Official Altaaf Kazi said, “All the people who have admin rights on Cricket South Africa’s page were kicked out, so we couldn’t get into Cricket South Africa’s page. We’ve since then contacted Facebook and done all the necessary procedures to ensure that the account is taken down. There has been no negligence from our side as far as I’m aware.”

The confronting images included semi-naked women. Australian-born cricketer Riki Wessels was the first to notice the posts and tweeted that he thought the whole incident was rather funny, as did others. The posts had not been removed as of Wednesday morning.