{"id":535494,"date":"2026-07-11T00:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/535494\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T00:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:04:22","slug":"argentina-investigating-cyberattack-after-emails-sent-describing-egypt-win-as-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/535494\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina investigating cyberattack after emails sent describing Egypt win as \u2018robbery\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Argentine Football Federation (AFA) has been forced to investigate whether its systems were hacked after mass emails were sent to journalists calling for \u201cjustice\u201d for Egypt and its head coach Hossam Hassan after the dramatic World Cup round-of-16 match between the teams on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

At least one reporter from The Athletic received one of the hacked emails. The email, written in English, included the subject line \u201cSYSTEM HACKED: UNFAIR DECISION\u201d and begins with \u201cthe robbery will not go unnoticed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The AFA confirmed Thursday it was looking into an incident where emails were \u201cpossibly\u201d sent from one of its accounts that were \u201cneither generated nor authorized by our team.\u201d<\/p>\n

The match between Argentina and Egypt will be remembered as one of the most dramatic games in World Cup history, with Argentina coming back from a two-goal deficit by scoring three goals in the final 13 minutes of play.<\/p>\n

But it was Egypt\u2019s disallowed goal in the 60th minute, canceled after VAR review, and a potential foul in Argentina\u2019s penalty box that set off the ongoing debate about officiating and conspiracies of favoritism in the competition.<\/p>\n

The Egyptian team was left angered by several refereeing decisions, with star forward Mostafa Ziko saying after the game that the trophy is \u201cdirected towards Argentina.\u201d<\/a> Egypt\u2019s head coach also claimed his side was wrongly denied that second goal and that Egypt should have been awarded a penalty in stoppage time moments before Enzo Fernandez scored Argentina\u2019s third goal. The coach said he will \u201cnever watch the World Cup again, because there\u2019s no justice in this competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The sentiment from the Egyptian team aligns with the email sent by hackers through AFA\u2019s accounts.<\/p>\n

The email seen by The Athletic is signed by \u201cAll Egyptian Cyber Warriors.\u201d It describes Argentina\u2019s win as \u201cstolen.\u201d While addressing the world, the message begins, \u201cSecurity is an illusion, just like the integrity of that match.\u201d<\/p>\n

The message described the game as \u201c90 minutes of unfair refereeing\u201d and claims Egypt\u2019s coach was \u201ctargeted for standing with Palestine.\u201d Hassan has repeatedly used his platform to show support for Palestine, including at this summer\u2019s World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The email concludes: \u201cIf there is no justice on the pitch, do not expect peace in your networks. Consider this transmission a permanent record of our protest.\u201d<\/p>\n

The AFA said in a statement it would conduct the necessary checks with its IT department, while asking those who received the messages to ignore them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a possibility that our account has been subject to unauthorized access,\u201d the AFA said. \u201cWe are currently working to clarify the situation and implement the necessary security measures.\u201d<\/p>\n

The federation added it would analyze the incident to determine its origin and scope.<\/p>\n

When reached Friday, an AFA spokesperson directed The Athletic to its previous statement, adding that there was nothing more to add because the situation had been \u201cresolved.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Argentine Football Federation (AFA) has been forced to investigate whether its systems were hacked after mass emails…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9877,1503,5543,49848,85,49849,46,19711,105],"class_list":["post-535494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-argentina","tag-culture","tag-egypt","tag-fifa-mens-world-cup","tag-il","tag-international-football","tag-israel","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}