AFL - Australian Football League

May 11, 2023 1 min read
AFL - Australian Football League

AFL fans on the website BigFooty had their data exposed.

A large data leak from an AFL fan website has exposed about 70 million records online, including private conversations between users.

Aussie Rules forum Bigfooty.com has about 100,000 users.

About 132GB of data was leaked from the site.

The researchers were able to view private messages, some containing email addresses, mobile phone numbers, passwords, and sensitive personal information.

In some cases, messages included threatening or racist comments.

Source: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/big-footy-data-breach-exposed-private-details-of-up-to-100-000-users-20200529-p54xnz.html

"id": "AFL225291222",
"linkid": "australian-football-league",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "05/2020",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"

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