14 DAY TRIAL // Russian hackers using the name Fancy Bears and posing as an offshoot of the Anonymous hacker collective have released more files they stole from WADA servers this past summer.
The group popped up online two days ago, and it claimed to have hacked WADA, releasing documents which they said showed that four US athletes were doping.
The documents proved to be nothing more than Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs), which every athlete is allowed to request when he/she undergoes a medical procedure or cures an ailment that requires more potent drugs not allowed by WADA rules.
It's safe to say that EVERYBODY does it, not just US athletes, but Fancy Bears didn't seem to care since they only wanted media agencies around the world to run click-bait and false articles about how US athletes doped. Two days later, it's safe to say: Mission accomplished!
Hackers release TUEs for 25 other athletes
The first batch of documents included TUEs for gymnast Simone Biles, basketball player Elena Delle Donne, and tennis players Venus and Serena Williams.
The batch the group released today includes another set of totally useless TUEs for athletes such as: Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA, tennis), Brittney Griner (USA, basketball), John Conger (USA, swimming), Dagmara Wozniak (USA, fencing), Deanna Price (USA, hammer throw), Kathleen Baker (USA, swimming), Mcquin Baron (USA, water polo), Michelle Carter (USA, shot putter), Sam Dorman (USA, diving), Tervel Ivaylov Dlagnev (USA, wrestler), Bradley Wiggins (UK, cycling), Charley Hull (UK, golf), Christopher Froome (UK, cycling), Heather Fisher (UK, rugby), Sam Townsend (UK, rowing), Blume Pernille (Denmark, swimming), Misha Aloyan (Russia, boxer), Madaj Natalia (Poland, rower), Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic, tennis), Roxana Cogianu (Romania, rower), Robert Harting (Germany, discus throw), Franziska Hentke (Germany, swimmer), Christina Obergfoll (Germany, javelin throw), Christian Vom Lehn (Germany, swimmer), and Christian Reichert (Germany, swimmer).
WADA confirmed on its site that all the leaked files are authentic, as it did with the first.
Fancy Bears also added a Bitcoin address at the bottom of their site, asking users to donate. At the time of writing, six people have donated a total of 0.04752135 Bitcoin ($28.92).
