- FFF hacked via compromised account, exposing members’ personal data but not passwords or banking information
- Stolen personal information includes names, birth details, contacts and license numbers, leading to phishing risks
- The FFF ended access, alerted the authorities and continues to face repeated cyberattacks in recent years.
The French Football Federation (FFF), the sport’s national governing body, has confirmed that it has lost personally identifiable information (PII) on an as yet undisclosed number of its members.
The group confirmed the news in a press release, in which it claimed that the data was lost in a cyberattack in which anonymous malicious actors used a “compromised account” to access the software it uses to carry out administrative management.
The attackers used their access to steal personal information about FFF members, including full names, gender data, dates of birth, places of birth, nationality information, postal addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and membership or license numbers.
Phishing warning
The FFF did not specify what software it was or how the account was compromised, but we can assume it happened either via phished credentials or infostealer malware.
Even if passwords and banking information were not recovered, this data is still sufficient to target FFF members with personalized phishing emails, through which this data can then be obtained. This is why the FFF has warned all its customers against incoming communications, particularly those claiming to come from the organization.
“We recommend that you exercise the greatest vigilance regarding any suspicious or unusual communication that you may receive (SMS, telephone call, email, etc.) and which appears to come from the FFF, your club or another sender (for example, inviting you to open an attachment or asking you to provide your account details, passwords or banking information),” we read in the press release.
The FFF said it had terminated the compromised account, informed the relevant authorities and added that it would also inform those affected.
The agency is a frequent target of cyberattacks. In March 2024, FFF revealed that approximately 1.5 million license records had potentially been compromised, and in February 2025, a second breach occurred when attackers accessed its license management system and stole personal data.
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