They are spreading the same Russian Crap here.
World Anti-Doping Agency Russian cyber attacks target Montreal-based agency France Media Agency | Posted on October 4, 2018 at 09:28 - Updated at 10:34
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), based in Montreal, has been the subject of a cyber attack that Russian military intelligence (GRU) is "most likely responsible," said Ottawa Thursday.
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WADA and the Canadian Center for Ethics in Sport (CCES, Canada's anti-doping agency) were targeted in 2016, said Canada's Foreign Affairs Ministry.
"Today, Canada joins its allies in denouncing a series of cyber-malicious operations carried out by the Russian army," the statement said, while the Netherlands, Australia, Great Britain and the United States Britain, NATO and the European Union also accuse Moscow of cyberattacks.
In 2016, WADA, an independent international agency, "revealed that the hacker group Fancy Bear / APT28 had leaked confidential information about athletes on its website," says the government. "The group illegally obtained this information by hacking the AMA's administration and management system."
In the same year, the Canadian Center for Ethics in Sport (CCES, Canada's anti-doping agency), "was compromised by malicious software that allowed unauthorized access to the Center's network," the report continues. ministry.
In both cases, "the Government of Canada believes that the GRU is most likely responsible for these actions."
WADA decided last month to reinstate the Russian anti-doping agency, suspended since November 2015 for its involvement in the state doping system in Russian sport between 2011 and 2015.
https:// www.tvanouvelles.ca/2018/10/04/des-cyberattaques-russes-ont-vise-le-canada