FIA News: FIA discloses email server hack

FIA (Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile), the auto racing governing body since the 1950s, says attackers gained access to personal data after compromising several FIA email accounts in a phishing attack.

“Recent incidents pursuant to phishing attacks has led to the unauthorized access to personal data contained in two email accounts belonging to the FIA,” the organization said on Wednesday.

“The FIA took all actions to rectify the issues, notably in cutting the illegitimate accesses in a very short time, once it became aware of the incidents.”

FIA says it notified the Préposé Fédéral à la Protection des Données et à la Transparence (the Swiss data protection regulator) and the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (the French data protection regulator) of the incident.

The F1 governing body has also taken additional security measures to block similar attacks in the future and said it “regrets any concern caused to the affected individuals.”