{"id":543157,"date":"2026-07-10T18:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/543157\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T18:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:44:19","slug":"world-cup-2026-hacking-worry-for-argentina-fa-over-egypt-game-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/543157\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Hacking worry for Argentina FA over Egypt game emails"},"content":{"rendered":"

Argentina’s football association has indicated it may have been the target of a cyber attack after emails from its official accounts reportedly criticised refereeing in the national team’s 3-2 win against Egypt<\/a> at the World Cup.<\/p>\n

The reigning world champions looked set for a shock last-16 exit when they trailed Egypt 2-0 but produced a remarkable late comeback to reach the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

Following the defeat, the Egyptian Football Association asked Fifa <\/a>to banish from the tournament the French referee Francois Letexier and the team of officials who were in charge, alleging bias in favour of Argentina.<\/p>\n

Argentine news outlet La Calle, external<\/a> reported emails sent from the Argentine Football Association’s (AFA) account to journalists after the match stated “Argentina did not win” and the result was a result of “corrupt refereeing decisions”.<\/p>\n

The publication said that AFA sources indicated a group of Egyptian-origin hackers were behind the emails, which also praised Egypt’s performance.<\/p>\n

Responding to the incident, an AFA statement read: “We want to inform you that we have detected the possible sending of emails from one of our institutional accounts that were not generated or authorised by our team.”<\/p>\n

It asked the public to “dismiss any message that you have recently received from our account and that is unusual, especially if it contains links, attachments or requests personal information”.<\/p>\n

“There is a possibility that our account has been subject to unauthorised access, so we are working to clarify what happened and adopt the necessary security measures,” the AFA added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Argentina’s football association has indicated it may have been the target of a cyber attack after emails from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-543157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}