Nicklas Backstrom’s Compromised Twitter Account @Backstrom19 Is Sending Spam Tweets To Everyone

At around 5:45 pm, Nicklas Backstrom‘s Twitter account @Backstrom19 started tweeting incomprehensible links to its 90k followers at the speed of light. Take a look.

I’m going to go ahead and guess his account has been compromised.

It appears I’m not the only one who noticed.

https://twitter.com/k8huds/status/507646053794185217

i think Nicky Backstrom's twitter got hacked

— Alexa (@capsgirl325) September 4, 2014

@backstrom19 you good?

— Andrew Carlson (@THECARLSON4) September 4, 2014

So I know this seems obvious, but please don’t click on those long link things.

And someone who knows Nicky, please tell him to change his password.

Update: Nicky is aware.

My last tweets must have been some sort of virus.

— Nicklas Backstrom (@backstrom19) September 4, 2014