{"id":117201,"date":"2025-11-04T10:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/117201\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T10:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:02:06","slug":"fifa-club-world-cup-participants-auckland-city-fcs-social-media-targeted-in-cyber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/117201\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa Club World Cup participants Auckland City FC\u2019s social media targeted in cyber attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

The risque content is yet to be deleted.<\/p>\n

An Auckland City FC spokesperson told the Herald the club had contacted the New Zealand Police before the images emerged as one of its clients had been targeted a few days earlier and it feared it would be the next victim.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hackers have kicked out all the administrators so we have no control… we can\u2019t remove anything,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

The Herald understands the club has not been able to access its social media account for two days.<\/p>\n

The club had reported the matter to New Zealand Football, the Oceania Football Confederation, Fifa and Netsafe \u2013 a government-appointed agency that investigates online abuse.<\/p>\n

The spokesperson was unaware of when the issue would be resolved.<\/p>\n

A statement posted to the club\u2019s website on Monday said the safety and integrity of its digital platforms are of \u201cutmost importance\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are taking all necessary steps to restore normal operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe appreciate the patience and understanding of our supporters during this time. Further updates will be provided as appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Herald has approached police for comment.<\/p>\n

Auckland City FC was in the news globally in June, although mostly because of their inferior performances in the Fifa Club World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After losing their opening match 10-0 to Bayern Munich<\/a>, they were handed a 6-0 defeat at the hands of Benfica. Despite their struggles, there was a Cinderella ending with a 1-1 draw against Boca Juniors.<\/p>\n

The club are currently fifth on the New Zealand National League ladder, with two wins from five matches and eight points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The risque content is yet to be deleted. An Auckland City FC spokesperson told the Herald the club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29184,89,51,1558,2199,18836,10542,4373,83138,36862,5213,18723,5606,78,1073,111,139,69,24366,45788,2437,17703,1072,213,1458,102,377],"class_list":["post-117201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-account","tag-attack","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-city","tag-club","tag-cup","tag-cyber","tag-fcs","tag-fifa","tag-football","tag-hackers","tag-images","tag-in","tag-media","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-participants","tag-posting","tag-security","tag-sexual","tag-social","tag-sports","tag-targeted","tag-with","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}