IAAF says medical records compromised by Fancy Bear hacking group

Coe said the IAFF's first priority is to the athletes who have provided information that they believed would be secure and confidential.

ZURICH: The governing body of global athletics (IAAF) said it had suffered a cyberattack that it believes has compromised information about athletes' medical records.

The IAAF said in a statement the hacking group known as Fancy Bear, which has been linked by western governments and security experts to a Russian spy agency blamed for some of the cyber operations that marred the 2016 US election, was believed to be behind the attack of medical records in February. The hack targeted information concerning applications by athletics for Therapeutic Use Exemptions, the IAAF said.