'Pearl Jam' hackers take over Greensburg Aerobics Center Facebook page

A Facebook page belonging to The Aerobic Center at Lynch Field in Greensburg has been hacked, apparently by a company hawking shirts featuring the rock band Pearl Jam.

“We’re trying to get it straightened out,” said center general manager Marianne Anzovino. “I’m furious.”

Anzovino’s personal page also was hacked, she said. She believes the two attacks are related.

As of Thursday afternoon, The Aerobic Center’s page was called Pearl Jam Fans.

The page still displays the center’s phone number, email address and hours, as well as old posts advertising fitness classes.

However, the hackers made three posts Thursday morning — a Pearl Jam logo, a photo of the band’s members and an advertisement for band merchandise. The ad links to bestsellertees.us, which sells more than a dozen hoodies and posters featuring the band.

A representative who answered the customer service number said the company’s social media marketing is not handled in-house. She did not answer additional questions about the hack or the company.

The website’s phone number is affiliated with numerous similar services, including T-Shirt Insider, Today Shirt, cooltrendygifts.com, TheStrangeWind and TeeHub. Today Shirt and TeeHub have both received “F” ratings by the Better Business Bureau.

Reviews for TeeHub on the BBB website are universally negative, with customers saying they ordered merchandise that never arrived.

Aerobics Center aquatics director Rachel Carloni, who manages the center’s Facebook page, realized something was wrong when she got an email Thursday morning saying she was no longer an administrator on the page.

She believes the hackers first took over Anzovino’s page, then used Anzovino’s administrative privileges to take over the center’s page.

Carloni was working to contact Facebook support to get the page back to normal.

“I’ve been trying to get a hold of who I need to get a hold of to get things corrected,” she said, “but it’s been slow going.”