{"id":546555,"date":"2026-03-17T16:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/546555\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T16:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:53:11","slug":"french-rugby-federation-files-lawsuit-over-phishing-linked-cyberattack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/546555\/","title":{"rendered":"French Rugby Federation files lawsuit over phishing-linked cyberattack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS (AP) \u2014 The French Rugby Federation has filed a lawsuit after being targeted by a cyberattack linked to a phishing campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The FFR, which has some 350,000 registered members, said on Tuesday it responded swiftly to the attack with a series of security measures, and that it did not directly affect its IT systems.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The phishing campaign targeted members.<\/p>\n<p>The FFR said it was also referring the matter to France\u2019s independent data protection authority and the relevant government services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigations are currently underway to determine the number of affected members and the nature of the data potentially involved in the incident,\u201d the federation said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident marked the latest cyberattack targeting a French sporting body after the French Football federation was also <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/french-soccer-federation-cyber-attack-fd07a70e7659517727489315509f91e8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:hit last year;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;hit last year&quot;}\" class=\"link \">hit last year<\/a>, resulting in the theft of data relating to members.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP rugby: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/rugby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/rugby;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/rugby<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 The French Rugby Federation has filed a lawsuit after being targeted by a cyberattack linked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,130706,270657,270655,270656,760,85],"class_list":["post-546555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cyberattack","tag-french-football-federation","tag-french-rugby-federation","tag-phishing-campaign","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}