Lawyers acting for Alex Schwazer have provided emails stolen by Russian hackers to Bolzano prosecutors as an illustration that International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) officials communicated about getting the Cologne Laboratory to support its case against the Italian race walker. Bolzano prosecutors are currently hearing evidence in an...
Hacking group Fancy Bears has alleged that Canadian sports officials attempted to cover up a doping violation ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympics to allow an athlete to compete, but its evidence fails to back its claim. The hacking group only published selected excerpts of its own evidence that...
Fancy Bears today alleged that Scandinavian countries are guilty of an ‘institutional conspiracy’ to gain widespread therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) for asthma drugs; that sporting bodies have failed to follow up whereabouts failures; and that Berlinger sample bottles are susceptible to breaking. The claims are designed to show that...
Hacking group Fancy Bears appears to have scored an own goal. The way in which it has publicised its latest hack into emails between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) appears to reveal more about the political motives behind the organisation than it does...
A hack by the Fancy Bears appears to have spectacularly backfired, and has illustrated that football is relatively doping free. Data released by the illegal hacking group showed that 216 adverse analytical findings (AAFs) were reported from 4,600 tests between 5 January 2016 and 13 February 2017. That equates...
On 15 and 20 December, the Fancy Bears hack team sent The Sports Integrity Initiative two new caches of information it claims to have accessed from the databases of the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES), the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). The...
On Friday 25 November, The Sports Integrity Initiative received an email from Fancy Bears Hack Team claiming to ‘contain examples of sending WADA tests results to unauthorised persons, instability of ADAMS and subjective-based WADA decisions’, as well as evidence of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) competitors taking prohibited substances. The...
The cyber criminals known as Fancy Bears, who hacked into the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS) to expose athletes’ private data such as their use of therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs), are now targeting national anti-doping organisations (NADOS). The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport...
A further publication of data illegally obtained from the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS) has taken the total number of athletes affected to 107 from 23 countries, competing in 25 sports. The latest publication on the Fancy Bears internet site involves Therapeutic Use Exemptions...
A fourth release of confidential athlete data from the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS) involves 26 athletes from ten countries and 12 sports. The new release is different from earlier releases in that it doesn’t contain any adverse analytical findings (AAFs), just therapeutic use...
A new leak of confidential medical data taken from the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS) has exposed Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs) and Adverse Analytical Findings (AAFs) relating to 11 athletes from five countries. The data leaked by the Fancy Bears internet site now encompasses...
A US federal law enforcement report into hacks on emails ahead of this year’s US Presidential election names Russian intelligence agencies as being behind hacking group Fancy Bear. However this, in itself, does not unmask Russia as being behind cyber attacks on anti-doping organisations (ADOs). The group behind attacks...
• Twenty eight athletes from 12 countries, competing in ten sports, were involved in anti-doping proceedings that came to light during the week ending 21 July 2023. Of the 28 doping cases that came to light in the past week, three involved ‘Whereabouts’ violations. Such cases do not involve...
Seventeen athletes from six countries, competing in nine sports, were involved in anti-doping proceedings that came to light this week. Five of the proceedings involved historic adverse analytical findings (AAFs – or ‘positive tests’) covered up by the Russian State, subsequently discovered after the Moscow Laboratory Information Management System...
The ‘whereabouts’ system, which requires athletes to file their location for doping control purposes, needs reforming. This has been highlighted, yet again, by the case of Ecuadorian sprinter Alex Quiñonez, who faces losing his spot at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics due to an error made by his agent in...
