FIFA, Hacked Again, Braces for New Revelations

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/sports/soccer/fifa-uefa-hack.html

By Tariq Panja
The New York Times
Oct. 30, 2018

LONDON -- FIFA acknowledged this week that its computer systems were 
hacked earlier this year for the second time, and officials from European 
soccer's governing body fear they also might have suffered a data breach.

The hack on FIFA, world soccer's governing body, occurred in March and is 
not thought to be connected to a cyberattack orchestrated by a group 
linked to Russia's intelligence agency in 2017. That incident led to the 
publication of a list of failed drug tests by soccer players.

The information that was compromised in the second cyberattack on FIFA is 
not yet clear, but a consortium of European media organizations plans to 
publish a series of stories based in part on the internal documents as 
early as Friday. The group Football Leaks originally obtained the 
documents.

UEFA officials were targeted in a so-called phishing operation in which 
third parties fool their targets into giving up password-protected login 
details, though the organization has been unable to find traces of a hack 
in its computer systems.

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