The NFL faced an embarrassing incident after last year's Super Bowl, when an international reporter stole Tom Brady's jersey.

To avoid a repeat of that type of incident, the NFL announced Thursday Super Bowl 52 media credentials include an RFID chip. Media entering the locker rooms after the Super Bowl will have to scan their credential upon entry, which will help keep track of who is in the locker room, and when.

According to the NFL release, "Only individuals assigned a working press credential will be admitted to the locker room postgame. Any person entering or exiting the locker room must 'tap in' and 'tap out' when entering or leaving utilizing the RF readers located at the entrance to the locker room. There will be an electronic chip embedded in every credential — both media and non-media — and electronic readers at the entry. Failure to 'tap out' when leaving will prevent a timely re-entry into the locker room area upon your return."

NFL chief security officer Cathy Lanier told ESPN the league gave its security procedures an "extensive review."

"The way we like to look at this is, we are doing every possible thing with cameras and technology to keep things secure all the way up to that locker room door," Lanier said. "Then we rely on our partners from our clubs, and that would be the Patriots and the Eagles that are here, to make sure with everything that goes on inside that locker room, they keep safe. It has been an extensive review and extensive changes that we made, but as you know, even with credentialed people in a really tight security operation, there can be incidents. We're hoping that that does not happen this year."

Police eventually recovered Brady's stolen jersey, as well as his missing jersey from the Patriots' Super Bowl win over the Seahawks in 2015.