The hacking of the FFF is serious: very sensitive data has been stolen, here

The hacking of the FFF is of large scale since personal information of 1.5 million people were stolen following an intrusion, on February 17, via a hacked account. All French football players over the past two seasons are affected.

The FFF affected by large -scale hacking

The hacked people are as follows: licensees, employees, club volunteers as well as members of the bodies, districts and leagues. The pirate at the origin of the cyber attack says that he has the data of 10 million people in the football world. Its goal is to monetize them to allow buyers to carry out fraud.

The data recovered by the pirate contains the names, first names, genres, dates and places of birth, nationalities, addresses, emails, telephone numbers, internal identifiers, photos and copies of identity documents. It is therefore a serious hacking even if the FFF specifies that banking data, medical information and passwords are not compromised.

In accordance with the obligations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the FFF has filed a complaint. Those concerned also have access to a form.

The FFF asks its members to be very cautious in the face of suspicious messages that could use this specific information. In particular the communications which seem to come from the federation with attachments or requests for additional information.