Someone hijacked a former NFL player’s Twitter account to troll Pakistan
At a glance, Nate Hendrick seemed like a typical Twitter user. His bio listed him as “traveller by profession, journalist by passion,” working as Rossiyskaya Gazeta‘s foreign correspondent in South Asia. With nearly 10,000 followers, he seemed comfortable with the form, blasting out observations and occasionally stinging criticisms of the local political scene. The only odd point was Hendrick’s screen name, @NateBussey59, but with Twitter’s verified check mark in place, there was no reason to be suspicious.
In fact, there was no Nate Hendrick. A month earlier, that account belonged to Nate Bussey, a former NFL linebacker and rightful owner of that verified check mark. But some time in early July, Bussey lost control of the account and…
