There is always something going on at the French Rugby Federation… Eight days after the election of former opponent Florian Grill to its presidency, the FFR revealed that it had been the victim of a cyberattack. This actually goes back “to the night of Wednesday June 7 to Thursday June 8” and “has mainly affected the mail servers”, indicates the instance in a press release.
“As soon as the attack was identified, on June 8 at noon, the FFR teams quickly took measures to eliminate the malware, better known as “ransomware”. “As of Wednesday, the specialized site MagIT had revealed the information and indicated that the author of the operation was “the Play mafia franchise”, which had already attacked the Alpes-Maritimes department and the city of Lille in particular.
The data revealed on June 27?
According to the same source, the hackers indicate in their claim that they stole “confidential private and personal” data, documents “of customers and employees, passports, HR, etc. “. Play ensures that this data will be revealed on June 27.
The FFR ensures that it has not “received a ransom demand to date and will not wish to respond to it if necessary”. “The federation was unable to recover the activity logs of some of the mailboxes that were encrypted during the attack,” she said.
“The FFR continues, in conjunction with the authorities, to research and analyze data that may have been exfiltrated as part of this attack, including emails, contacts and calendar information. “Two and a half months before the start of the World Cup in France (from September 8 to October 28), the Fed did not need this kind of worry.