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Hackers Take Over Michigan Sports Facebook Pages, Spam Fans with NSFW Trash

Facebook fans of various University of Michigan athletic programs awoke Wednesday morning to late-breaking news on Kim Kardashian's "bloated frame" and its fragile armistice with a youth-sized bikini.

Michigan Football Social Media Accounts Were Hacked http://t.co/617yTdDfPj pic.twitter.com/BlbU4QBSGv

— 365 Rundown Sports (@365Rundown) August 12, 2015

This unfortunate bulletin was just one of a deluge of spam stories posted by the Facebook pages of various Michigan sports teams in the wee hours of Tuesday night and Wednesday morning in what appears to be a fairly open-and-close case of online hacking.

Posts sent out to fans included celebrity clickbait posts, gross-out sliders and sex-tip listicles founded on the notion that all females are moments away from physical intimacy if you put in the right GameShark code.