In a laudable attempt to engage their fans, the New York Rangers set up a live chat for the first 500 users with recently signed prospect K’Andre Miller. They used the popular Zoom platform, a system that has gained enormous usage due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Thousands of school, businesses and individuals are using Zoom to communicate
After the chat began someone hacked into it and as Miller was being asked a question, a racial slur was displayed hundreds of times. He clearly saw it and ignored it, answering the question about quarantine.
It took the Rangers organization four hours to post a statement.