The World Anti-Doping Association (WADA) has announced that they have been the victim of daily cyber attacks against their official website since their investigation into the Russian Sports Federation uncovered a massive, state-led doping program sanctioned by the Russian Government.
The Director General of the WADA, Olivier Niggli, made the announcement on September 1st. In his announcement, to Norway’s NRK News website, he stated that “We have experienced hacking attempts every day for three weeks. It is happening all the time and it is very annoying.”
“We have a pretty good suspicion about who the hackers are. They are from Russia and they are acquaintances of Western governments.” the WADA Director added.
These attacks stem from the investigation into Russia that uncovered a massive, state-sanctioned doping program. The WADA investigation, which began on a Russian whistle-blower’s claim of government-ordered cheating, found that athletes were given performance-enhancing drugs regularly dating back to 2011 and that positive drug tests were routinely covered up. The severity of the doping discovery led the WADA to initially ask the IOC to ban the entire Russian Federation from competing in the Rio Olympics. Eventually, the IOC decided to ban the entire Russian Paralympic team from the 2016 Rio Olympics, as well as severely sanction the Russian Olympic team.
Can’t wait for nothing to be done about it!
The Russian government has purposefully corrupted the process of attempting to insure that cheaters do not completely take over competitive sports. Because it’s the government and their national sports federations that are complicit in this attempt to gain an unfair advantage over those who compete fairly, all Russian athletes must suffer the consequence of being banned from international events until good, honest sportsmen and sports women in that country take back their sport from the corrupt officials and administrators that are creating and directing this scandalous behavior, The fact that FINA has just sanctioned World Cup competition in Moscow and allowed some of Russia’s most notorious cheaters to compete is proof positive that FINA itself is part of the problem.… Read more »
Ppl always want others to do their boycotting for them . Start with yourself .
WADA SOO BRAVE PUNISHING PARALYMPIANS,SOO MUCH SPIRIT+ SOUL,
YEAH LET’S BAN EM FOR ABUSE OF COCAINE 8-o
What’s he seeing in that cup?
‘They are from Russia and they are aquaintances of western government’ . This man either does not speak English or he let the cat outta de bag .
Also Russia please release the bathroom shots WADA has been filming of athletes .( See how easy it is to simply state something ) .
I hope they find my missing emails.
To think Cher was in her best pink slacks ( remember them?) & even added a matching HRC style pink blouse ( remember them?) In expectaion of a pantsuit -ed HRC .
You confounded the rich entitled celebrity guests with the oven mitt with polka dot slippers . But maybe not a good idea to turn up in it again 2 days later with unwashed hair . There is a fine line between edgy & the mentally ill.
Dump those Saudi advisors .I am ????
Here for you of course . Just not 3am .????
You sound like I just kept hitting my word suggestion box on my phone jfc
Dear Yabo . Search “oven mitt outfit ‘ & 1st result is ……
‘Hillary breaks out the worst outfit in human history ‘ Dailywire August 25 .
Try not to be so ignorant et Merde – blasphemy is not a substitute for wit. Its your election – try & keep up .
Youre right. That comment seemed to be completely full of random words put together
There’s no way they know where the hackers are actually from. Just because they track it to a Russian ip address means nothing. I heard an interview from some anonymous guy. He said that he would always use encryption with a Russian ip address even though he was located in the US. He said using a Russian ip was useful because if any gov or agency went to Russia for help tracking down who was using that ip they would just tell you kiss my ass.
But this is hacking of the WADA. Russia has a been all for doping. No surprise that they traced it to Russia.
Whomever you heard the interview from was either rather elementary or, more likely, intentionally not saying much. There are ways, if you have the resources, to track beyond the linked proxies of IP addresses. In fact, many corporations do that now on a regular basis for security reasons. Whether WADA has those resources or not, I don’t know, but I wouldn’t be surprised if some company or government has helped WADA track the hackers.
I dont know…they seemed to be very sure the attacks were coming from russia. Im sure they have a way of being able to trace attacks back to specific locations. Just because they didnt explain all the technical details doesnt mean there isnt proof.
Oh dear yet more drama. Now we have doping, vyatchanin, effimova, brock turner, resignatioms…Gosh it feels more like politics than a sport these days.