French Football Federation faces own-goal after club software data breach

The French Football Federation (FFF) has conceded that attackers broke into its member management software using a compromised account, scoring a match sheet's worth of player data in the process.

The FFF, French football's national governing body, is the outfit that organizes everything from Sunday league pitch markings to World Cup campaigns, handling licensing, regulation, coaching programs, club financing, and France's seat at FIFA and UEFA's top tables. In short, if French football has strings, the FFF usually pulls them.

According to a statement from the FFF published on Monday, the intrusion was spotted via an unauthorized login traced to a compromised account. The FFF said it immediately disabled the rogue account and reset passwords for every user on the platform, applying the infosec equivalent of subbing off the entire squad for a fresh line-up. The federation also secured the software and underlying data to block ...