{"id":11210,"date":"2016-09-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/cyber-operations\/compromise-of-the-world-anti-doping-agency\/"},"modified":"2016-09-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T00:00:00","slug":"compromise-of-the-world-anti-doping-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/compromise-of-the-world-anti-doping-agency","title":{"rendered":"Compromise of the World Anti-Doping Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirmed<\/a> in September 2016 that it had been compromised by suspected Russian threat actors in a data leak of confidential information about forty-one athletes <\/a>who competed in the Rio Olympic Games. The data revealed drug-test results and medical data pertaining to \u201ctherapeutic use exemptions,\u201d situations in which WADA allows athletes to take banned substances if their usage is deemed legitimate.<\/p>\n

A group using the Fancy Bear<\/a> moniker, the same term some security experts assign to a Russian state-sponsored threat actor, claimed responsibility for the compromise. Some commentators viewed the incident<\/a> as Russian retaliation for a WADA report<\/a> that detailed Moscow-sanctioned efforts to provide performance-enhancing drugs to Russian athletes<\/a> during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n

The United States, Australia<\/a>, Canada<\/a>, New Zealand<\/a>, and the United Kingdom<\/a> issued statements attributing the incident to Russian military intelligence. Separately, the United States issued an indictment<\/a> against seven alleged Russian military intelligence officials involved in the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirmed in September 2016 that it had been compromised by suspected Russian threat actors in a data leak of confidential information about forty-one athletes who competed in the Rio Olympic Games. The data revealed drug-test results and medical data pertaining to \u201ctherapeutic use exemptions,\u201d situations in which WADA allows athletes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"cyber_operation":[49],"state_sponsor":[141],"victim_category":[32],"victim_government_response":[194],"victim":[],"class_list":["post-11210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incident","cyber_operation-espionage","state_sponsor-russian-federation","victim_category-civil-society","victim_government_response-yes"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11210"},{"taxonomy":"cyber_operation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cyber_operation?post=11210"},{"taxonomy":"state_sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state_sponsor?post=11210"},{"taxonomy":"victim_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/victim_category?post=11210"},{"taxonomy":"victim_government_response","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/victim_government_response?post=11210"},{"taxonomy":"victim","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/victim?post=11210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}