{"id":3968,"date":"2018-11-03T15:07:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T15:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/fifa-governing-body-reveals-it-data-hack-earlier-this-year\/"},"modified":"2018-11-03T15:07:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T15:07:17","slug":"fifa-governing-body-reveals-it-data-hack-earlier-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/fifa-governing-body-reveals-it-data-hack-earlier-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa: Governing body reveals IT data hack earlier this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"story-body\">\n<figure class=\"sp-media-asset sp-media-asset--lead\"><figcaption class=\"sp-media-asset__caption gel-brevier \">Fifa says it was hacked in March of this year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Fifa says information was hacked from its IT systems earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sp-story-body__external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/30\/sports\/soccer\/fifa-uefa-hack.html\">A consortium of media organisations<i class=\"sp-story-body__external-link-icon gelicon gelicon--external\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/a> is set to report details of the hack, which took place in March, in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We condemn any attempt to compromise the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data,&#8221; football&#8217;s world governing body said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are concerned by the fact that some information has been obtained illegally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Justice and the FBI said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-45746837\">earlier this month<\/a> that Russian military intelligence was responsible for a separate hack on Fifa in 2016 that led to evidence from anti-doping investigations and lab results being published.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In response to the increasing number of internet-enabled computer attacks, Fifa is continually modifying its systems and practices and allocates significant budgets for the continuous improvement of its information security posture,&#8221; the governing body said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following a hack in March 2018, Fifa took a number of measures to improve IT security, in order to protect employees. It&#8217;s an ongoing issue, which Fifa has to face just like countless organizations around the world who are all dealing with data security challenges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/46035985\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifa says it was hacked in March of this year Fifa says information was hacked from its IT systems earlier this year. A consortium of media organisations is set to report details of the hack, which took place in March, in the coming days. &#8220;We condemn any attempt to compromise the confidentiality, integrity and availability &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}