The Spanish Football Federation announces that it has been the victim of a computer attack with the aim of stealing secret documentation and audios and private conversations Luis Rubiales, president of the organization, and Andreu Camps, general secretary. The RFEF will report these events to the Police.
“The RFEF, through its Department of Integrity and Security, is going to report to the National Police the theft of information from its email accounts, as well as private text and audio conversations of executives of the federal entity. Everything seems to indicate that information has been illegally stolen from the private terminals of the President and the Secretary General,” they explain in a statement.
In addition, they point out that all this illegally stolen information has been offered to the press: “It is likely that this private information obtained illegally and with clear criminal purposes has been offered to different media outlets. This conclusion has been reached after being a journalist who has advanced the RFEF the next publication of this illegally stolen material that the media has received, according to the journalist, through an anonymous informant who has contacted the RFEF with an encrypted voice and has put it their disposal through a mobile application”. And they add: “The aforementioned media outlet claimed to have received, through third parties, confidential contracts, private WhatsApp conversations, emails and abundant documentation from the field of RFEF management, which, if authentic, would mean a crime of revealing secrets and a violation of the fundamental rights of the people attacked”.
The Federation is going to report these events to the Police and warns that it is not the first time they have been the target of these attacks: “For a few months, the Federation and its directors have been the object of attempted computer attacks such as hacking and phishing, which were reported in a timely manner to the Police.. The attacks led the federal entity to hire a company specialized in the matter in order to carry out a copy of the threatened content, expand the level of security and prevent, as far as possible, future attacks. In this process, coordinated with the RFEF Security and Integrity department, a backup of three federative executives was made, including the President and the Secretary General. An organized criminal action aimed at the subsequent revelation of secrets through the distribution of confidential documentation with a clear spurious intention is verified.