Hacked WADA data ; end of WADA ?

Has WADA failed or have these idiots given away their passwords by falling for a simple fishing scam?

Scam or otherwise , needs to be secure.

To send data to an other country the data controller has many procedures and rules to follow .

I can't see how this is possible and thus the actual data controller , the person the athlete has the original contract , will be in breach .

End of WADA's Adams system and thus end of WADA .

Can't have a global control system that complies with all home laws .Just too much to ask.

Bit like trying to drug test in closed cities or Crimea.

Utter crap mate. If what you were saying was true online banking wouldn't exist.

Online banking does not have sensitive data and that is controlled by a DPA.

Nor is such sent around the world to places that have no controls .

DPA 's exist and are not to be broken ; says the law .

If WADA has been got at cos people gave up passwords then that is one thing but otherwise not secure is an other .

Johnny Obvious wrote:

Utter crap mate. If what you were saying was true online banking wouldn't exist.

Banks have an incentive to security. Government agencies, not so much so.

The WADA IST sets out data requirements and need to comply with local law .

Can't see how the data controller ; which will not be WADA can possible demonstrate how the sensitive personal data is controlled world wide .

Who would want to risk health problems being out there . STD etc .injury info could wipe millions of value of footballers ; soccer or otherwise .

Let Clinton and Trump risk such data exposure .

Seems that 50 GB athletes have had data hacked .

Clearly all these have not been tricked etc.

So Data not secure ; will the data controller be fined and what if that controller is a volunteer for a small governing body ?

If a DCO is testing in say ,xcxcc for instance or in many parts of the world can you tell me that when they access ADAMS it will be secure ?

Masters sport is covered by TUEs . Can a senior executive risk his medical records being exposed ?

And can the Data Controller pay compensation for such a leak ?

Maybe the hack started out as phishing but clearly the database itself was hacked. It's too improbable that everyone whose information was leaked had their login information individually stolen.

WADA is based in Canada, so it seems like Canada's privacy/data security laws would apply, but since each country's NADO or governing body requires the data be submitted to WADA, perhaps different countries' individual privacy or data security laws would also apply.

I don't think it means the end of doping control. Data security can always be tightened and it obviously needs to be. What it means is that there's a big push of disinformation by the Russians to make people think that getting a TUE is equivalent to drinking a cocktail of Chivas and steroids.

All it takes is a single valid user name, and a single software flaw and a system can be fully compromised.

Anti Moron Protection wrote:

Has WADA failed or have these idiots given away their passwords by falling for a simple fishing scam?

Good question. Many things reported as "hacks" by the news media are actually situations in which someone has guessed (or stolen) a password. I don't consider that to technically be a hack, a term that I reserve for someone who has through superb skill broken into a server and downloaded a database or a trove of e-mails.

The EU have been very unhappy about data going to countries with poor or little control.

Whatever the actual detail of the hack it throws this beach of EU law into sharp focus .

Has the immediate apology from the head of UKAD anything to do with the panic WADA world is now in ?

And most of the problems would have been avoided if an other element of EU data law had been followed . This is the retention of data .

There is no need to keep TUEs well after they have expired .

Remember it is the data controller who is responsible and not where the data is eventually stored . Thus UKAD are in breach of the law by not having the old data removed .

This is not a simple matter of increasing security ; it is one of sports rules being in breach of real laws and such is inherent in persueing any global mission .

ADAMS is due to be obsoleted at the end of the year.http://www.sportsintegrityinitiative.com/the-new-adams-update/However, with bureaucratic inertia, it might easily hang for a few more.

The new ADAMS project, which was initiated in July 2014 and will go live by end-2016, is being developed with an athlete-centered approach and will provide users with:

• an optimized user interface, along with improved performance and functionality;

• an investigation platform (in line with the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code); and

• a universal interface to allow organizations to extract information from, or feed to ADAMS.

New Adams still allows and is for easy access ; this is where the data protection probs will lie as EU law stops personal data leaving Europe unless meets stringent conditions ; conditions which can't be met .

Drug testers in breach of the law !

Alas, it has been admitted that WADA only catches a small percentage of drug cheats (reported to be less than 5%) so it is essentially a failure and should be disbanded.

Could you imagine if an automobile manufacturer's Quality Assurance Department only caught 5% of defects before the cars were sent to dealers? How long would the head of this department have his job?

Doping has existed in sport for 100+ years it's a fact of life so my radical suggestion is to stop testing and make doping perfectly legal.

Sad for a medical professional to suggest this............

Again, all it takes is one phished username and password and an average technical skillset and tools, and your system is compromised.

Run Doctor wrote:

Doping has existed in sport for 100+ years it's a fact of life so my radical suggestion is to stop testing and make doping perfectly legal.

Sad for a medical professional to suggest this............

It's sad and it's also incredibly stupid.

If EU law stops data distribution to non secure locations then WADA will have to radically and expensively change to the point of stopping its work .

Why don't we use whereabouts to control terror suspects or ensure via testing that our leaders are not under the influence of drugs . How many are on HRT with the possible side effects of aggression .And should we not know what legal drugs Trump and Clinton are taking ?

It should be far more important to control these people than a bunch of tennis players .

Please tell me why I am wrong .