Discovered that the World Anti-Doping Organization had been hacked from Russia

ByIrven Simmons

Established in 1999 to promote anti-doping activities worldwideWorld Anti-Doping Organization(WADA) was found to have been illegally accessed by Russian cyber spy group.

WADA Confirms Attack by Russian Cyber ​​Espionage Group | World Anti-Doping Agency
https://www.wada-ama.org/en/media/news/2016-09/wada-confirms-attack-by-russian-cyber-espionage-group


The illegal access was made by Russian Cyber ​​Spy Group "Tsar Team", commonly known as "Fancy Bear", which steals confidential information through cyber attacks. WADA has a database called Anti-Doping Management System (ADAMS), but Tsar Team illegally invaded the database using the ADAMS account created by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for Rio Olympics 2016 It is announced. The stolen thing is athlete's medical data related to the Rio Olympic Games, etc. Tsar Team has released some of this confidential data in the public domain and threatened as "to disclose more information" It is said that there is.

WADA said that this cyber attack used a mail accountSpear phishingIt seems that it is due to the fact that ADAMS data leaked ADAMS password is accessible only to the information on the Rio Olympic Games, we believe that other ADAMS data is not stolen.

WADA Secretary-General Olivier Niggli said, "WADA regret this case, and we are paying attention to whether athletes are intimidated" to disclose confidential information. "Currently IOC and the International Federation of Competitions IF), I am in touch with the threat of the athlete. " In addition, in Russia, an anti-doping committee was established to solve the doping problem of the sports world, but this cyber attack weakened WADA and the world's anti-doping regime and normalized the relationship with IOC and WADA We are condemning it as trying to impair Russia's efforts to make it.

We accused Russian systematic doping wholesalersYulia StevenovaMr. Stolen ADAMS password by someone in August 2016, personal account isI talked about being hacked, This hacking is the one following the attack on Mr. Stevenaway. WADA sees the situation severely, and carries out security checks both inside and outside, and it is going to continue investigation by a legal institution in future.