2024-08-12 04:14:00
The Polish Anti-Doping Agency (POLADA) was attacked by the Russian hacker group Beregini. “Przegląd Sportowy” first reported the incident. The attack occurred a day before the opening of the Paris Olympics.
The hackers boasted about this on a Telegram channel. “Let’s go! On the eve of the 2024 Olympic Games, we were uninvited guests of the Polish Anti-Doping Agency (POLADA). We liked it so much that we decided to stay a little longer and look at their entire database. According to ancient tradition, we also Offered to loyal subscribers, we therefore offer you a complete library of Polish athletes. result Anti-doping testing, which covers a range of banned substances, including drugs. Well, those who can and know how to dig deeper will find a lot of other interesting information that will lead them to investigate the criminal distribution of banned drugs in EU countries with protruding donkey ears of Ukrainian and Polish businessmen – it was written!
Athletes’ information leaked
Former Polish athlete Marek Plawgo pointed out on Twitter: “The data after the POLADA leak is still public. Not only the personal data he informed in the message to the players, namely addresses, phone numbers, but most importantly, the results of the games. It is a serious leak of data, with dozens of GB.
Polish cyclist Wojciech Pszczolarski made no secret of his anger. – It’s like every day at POLADA. If confidential emails are not sent to the wrong recipients, personal data can be shared, stolen, etc. Violations of GDPR regulations are commonplace. How can such an institution be trusted? – Pushzolarski asked, releasing as evidence a leaked email about the material athletes received from the agency.
After the case was disclosed by the media, POLADA said: “The investigation results show that the attack was carried out by an organization supported by enemy departments. Currently, the case is under investigation and detailed technical analysis.” POLADA has taken necessary measures to protect the system and Submit a notification to the appropriate law enforcement agency.
Translated by the person in charge of POLADA
Sport.pl asked the head of the agency, Michał Rynkowski, about the current situation. – At this stage, I can only confirm that technical analysis and investigation of the incident is ongoing. Rynkowski said POLADA cooperates with the police, Polish CERT, the Personal Data Protection Office and the Ministry of Sports and Tourism.
Other than that, it still doesn’t work. The official website of the agency – www.antydoping.pl. – The decision to restore the website is also the subject of a joint operation between POLADA and relevant units, including those responsible for network security – said the director. Are there any signs that such an attack might occur? – As far as we know, there are no external signals indicating the hackers’ plans – Rynkowski argued.
This is the first such large-scale hacking attack in Polish anti-doping history. In the past, hackers have targeted Western anti-doping organizations, including: World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), 2016. This leak was attributed to another Russian organization, Fancy Bears.
Russia is cutting itself off
Then, as now, the Russians denied that they supported the perpetrators in any way. “Polish authorities have once again accused Russia of helping hackers, without providing any evidence,” we read in a cable from Russia’s TASS news agency.
She continued: “Polish authorities have often accused Russia of carrying out cyberattacks against targets in their country. Moscow was identified as responsible for organizing an attack on the Polish News Agency in late May. Russia has repeatedly denied accusations of involvement in hacking attacks.”
In late May, the People’s Action Party issued a fake telegram informing Prime Minister Donald Tuska of an announcement of partial mobilization from July 1, 2024. Krzysztof Gawkowski quickly assured on Twitter that the telegram was untrue. – Everything indicates that we are dealing with cyber attacks from the Russian side – he later added in the Polsat News program.
In June 2022, representatives of Berejny’s organization released a document purportedly written by Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov to Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, outlining Plan to send Ukrainian refugees to the front lines. It turns out this is fake news. Days later, the hackers sent a letter from the U.S. Department of Defense describing actions by a coalition of countries supporting Ukraine to speed up the delivery of air defense systems.
The Beregini group has been operating since 2016 but rose to fame only six years later, when it began spreading pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian content before the war.
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