Swedish sports body hacked by Russians, officials say
April 13, 2021 GMT
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) The organization that oversees Sweden’s national sports federations was hacked by Russian military intelligence in 2017-18, officials said Tuesday, in a data-breaching campaign that also affected some of the world’s leading sporting bodies, including FIFA and the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Swedish prosecutors said the “repeated and comprehensive breaches” of the Swedish Sports Confederation by GRU resulted in athletes’ personal details, such as medical records, being accessed and that information being published by Swedish media.
The hacking was discovered following an investigation by the Swedish Security Service in cooperation with the security services of other countries. But the investigation has been discontinued because “the necessary preconditions for taking legal proceedings abroad or extradition to Sweden are lacking,” public prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist said.
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