Wada fumes after Russian hackers leak data on Williams sisters and others
LOS ANGELES — The World Anti-Doping Agency on Tuesday slammed Russian hackers who breached its database and published confidential records of US Olympic gymnast Simone Biles and tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.Wada said in a statement that the Russian cyber-espionage group Tsar Team (APT28), also known as Fancy Bears, had broken into its Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (Adams) database.The hacking group released information gleaned from the files of Biles, the Williams sisters and US women’s basketball player Elena Delle Donne.In a posting on its website, Fancy Bears claimed US athletes at the Olympics had "played well but not fair". However, none of the documents published by the group provided evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the athletes involved.Instead, the disclosed files set out instances where the athletes had been granted exemptions to use various medications for legitimate reasons — a common practice in the sports world.The United States Anti-D...
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