Update -- 9:45 p.m: The University of Michigan Athletic Department flashes an all-clear signal after a rough day on the Facebook field, where a hacker or hackers posted two series of racy posts on the school's football page, basketball page and main athletics page.
At 8:44 p.m. Wednesday, it posted on the social media site:
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 3 a.m. and 4 p.m. today. We have no indication that any of our other Michigan accounts across all social platforms have been compromised.
The school also tweets:
Thanks once again for your continued support and patience. #GoBlue #BestFansEver
— Michigan Athletics (@UMichAthletics) August 13, 2015
Update -- Wednesday, 2:20 p.m.: The Detroit News reports that the U-M Facebook pages were hacked twice. U-M tweeted that everything was fixed in Wednesday morning, but the problem resurfaced during the afternoon.
From earlier Wednesday:
If you're a Kim Kardashian otr Miley Cyrus fan, this wasn't so terrible. But the University of Michigan was unhappy.
WXYZ reports that the university's Facebook pages for Michigan football, basketball and athletics were hacked.
The station reports that it started overnight as posts began to appear with scantily clad stars, including Kardashian and Cyrus.
The station reports that users who clicked the link enabled viruses on their own pages and computers.
By mid-morning, the university tweeted that things were fixed.
"Thanks to diligent work on behalf of our partners at @UMich and at Facebook, we have resolved the situation and deleted any offensive posts," the University posted.
This photo was still posted as of 12:50 p.m.
However, as of 12:48 p.m., they were not fixed. There were still racy photos.
Earlier, around 7:45 a.m., U-M tweeted:
Fans of U-M Athletics: We want to acknowledge that our Facebook pages for Michigan Football, Basketball, and Athletics have been hacked.
7:45 AM - 12 Aug 2015
