The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Wednesday released a statement detailing the security and investigatory steps it has taken in light of the recent Fancy Bears hacking that revealed athletes' confidential medical information, including Therapeutic Use Exemptions granted to Grand Tour winners Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins.
Revelations that the UCI granted Wiggins TUEs for asthma medication Salbutamol and for the powerful corticoid Triamcinolone Acetonide stirred controversy that continues to reverberate.
In its Wednesday statement, WADA revealed that since the Fancy Bears hackers gained access to the Anti-Doping Administration and Management System [ADAMS] that was created especially for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games [Rio 2016 ADAMS Account], gaining access to TUE information for all the athletes competing at the RIO Olympics, it has deactivated all Rio 2016 ADAMS accounts; disabled the self-service 'forgot password' reset feature; increased logging capabilities related to security events; increased monitoring of logs and network activity; and deactivated dormant accounts.
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Earlier this week, WADA announced it hired Günter Younger, creator and director of the Cybercrimes division of the Bavarian Landeskriminalamt (BLKA) in Germany, as director of the agency's Intelligence and Investigations unit.
WADA also revealed that the investigation taken up by Mandiant, a security and forensic consulting firm, into the agency's online assets is 90 percent complete, and it has not found "any evidence of additional compromise to ADAMS data beyond the export of the Rio 2016 ADAMS Account data through 12 September," the day before the Fancy Bear breach was revealed.
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