Cape Town , December 09 – Cricket South Africa officials were left embarrassed in the wee hours of the morning today . The Cricket South Africa (CSA) Facebook page was hacked early yesterday evening and several webpage links containing explicit adult content were posted overnight.
The CSA had only regained control of its page this morning after contacting Facebook’s offices for assistance. Later an official statement from Cricket South Africa apologized to all it’s followers .
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, which is followed by 3.3 million people, and removed all of their officials from the list of administrators.
The organisation says they’ve conformed to all the privacy settings on the website and have also emailed Facebook staff in the United States to query what happened.
CSA spokesperson 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.”