Top MLB Insider’s Twitter Account Gets Hacked During Labor Negotiations

May this be a reminder to everyone to update their passwords regularly.

MLB players aren’t the only ones experiencing a lockout right now. 

Imagine: You’re one of the top MLB insiders, covering one of baseball’s biggest stories—for the first time in nearly three decades, the regular season games are being canceled due to a work stoppage. Progress is being made behind closed doors, and as you go to tweet the latest update from your sources, you realize you can’t. You’ve been hacked. 

This is how Jeff Passan’s day went on Thursday, a day after league commissioner Rob Manfred announced the cancellation of more games, marking the earliest that Opening Day will be held is now April 14.

Soon after tweeting that there was an agreement on the international draft according to his sources, Passan's account was hacked. His profile picture was replaced by a skull and whoever had control of his account started retweeting the brand Skulltoons. 

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And while this was untimely for Passan, his colleagues and Twitter had fun roasting him. May this be a reminder to everyone to update their passwords regularly. 

Full disclosure, the rest of the writers established a council, took a vote, and we threw @JeffPassan into an NFT volcano as a sacrifice to get baseball back. He will be missed.

— Levi Weaver (@ThreeTwoEephus) March 10, 2022

oh great, they're gonna have to negotiate jeff passan's twitter account into the cba now

— Alden González (@Alden_Gonzalez) March 10, 2022

Jeff Passan MLB
🤝
Locked out

— Joe Seppi (@_JoeSeppi) March 10, 2022

my guy Jeff Passan trying to get back on twitter right now https://t.co/T7whpIIk8z

— Mina Kimes (@minakimes) March 10, 2022

The irony is if Jeff Passan tried to get into his account and failed, the result is a lockout …

— Jessica Kleinschmidt (@KleinschmidtJD) March 10, 2022

Show your solidarity with Jeff Passan. pic.twitter.com/zGFJqLWlQM

— Tony Adams (@adams_at) March 10, 2022

BREAKING: Jeff Passan and his hacker are close to a deal

— Tom House 〽️ (@tomhouse) March 10, 2022

Rob Manfred hacking Jeff Passan's Twitter pic.twitter.com/15hPRaThnx

— OLIVIA witherite⁷ (@Oliviawitherite) March 10, 2022

pic.twitter.com/G7GLccpotL

— Zach Buchanan (@ZHBuchanan) March 10, 2022