A lot can happen in five minutes. For Toronto Maple Leafs fans that follow the Twitter feed for TSN 1050 radio, five minutes was long enough to have a collective freakout over a reported trade of forward James van Riemsdyk to the New York Rangers.

What incredible breaking news! One could only imagine the bounty coming back to the Leafs for such a high-profile player!

Well, there was a lot of imagination involved in this scenario, apparently: TSN Radio deleted the news and claimed they had been “hacked.”

DISREGARD OUR LAST TWEET - our account has been compromised. Working to resolve. — TSN 1050 Toronto (@TSN1050Radio) January 19, 2016

More from a real insider, TSN’s Bob McKenzie:

James van Riemsdyk has not been traded. We just received internal TSN email saying TSN Radio account had been hacked. In any case, no trade. — Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) January 19, 2016

And…

If a trade happens, that TSN Radio account is not where news of it would be broken. — Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) January 19, 2016

It would be fun, from an historical perspective, to pinpoint the moment when leaving your unlocked laptop on the table of a coffee shop with Twitter open became “being hacked.”

Unless of course the password for their feed was “TSN1050.”

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