Hacker takes over Buster Olney’s Twitter account, fools media, fans with fake reports

In case you haven’t realized yet, ESPN MLB reporter Buster Olney’s Twitter account was hacked earlier today. While he managed to regain control of the account, the hacker’s hilarious posts live on across social media.

The best part is, the hacker seemingly knows nothing about baseball, or who Buster Olney even is, and started tweeting out fake reports suggested by fans:

Forgive the repetition across some of these examples. Buster Olney’s hacker went on a generational run, so some of these are so funny they really do bear repeating.

My personal favorite is a tie between, “Okay, if I get an unlimited prison sentence, who will come and bring panties?” and the Shohei Ohtani lifetime ban. Both of them had the guys in the office cracking up.

The one that struck closest to home was the fake Luis Robert to the Phillies report. Fortunately for me, I was already aware that Olney had been hacked before that tweet went live, so I managed to avoid the immense excitement and subsequent devastation many Phillies fans experienced.

It wasn’t just fans who were bamboozled, either. Some media outlets, including notorious slop mongers 94.1 WIP, were pretty slow to catch on to this one.

Classic WIP doing .01 seconds of research into something before posting about it. I can’t say I’m surprised because, well, I’m not.

Like I said earlier, this hacker knew absolutely nothing about baseball. The baseball-related posts came directly from fan submissions, including the Luis Robert report, and I have the screenshot to prove it.

I do wonder where Buster Olney falls in all of this. Surely, he wasn’t happy his account was hacked, but it had to be at least somewhat funny, right?

An alternative theory is that he wasn’t hacked at all. Being one of the biggest names in baseball journalism has to carry a pretty heavy weight. There’s absolutely a non-zero chance Olney decided to cut loose and be a silly goose for a bit just to see what would happen.

Regardless of how things went down, this is a day in baseball history whether you like it or not. We witnessed one of the greatest displays of social media hacking since its inception.

We are all witnesses.

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Very real and legitimate journalist. I don't see a loss on the schedule.

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