Liverpool players and staff celebrate with the trophy after winning the Premier League in the Kop [Pool via REUTERS]Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warned on Thursday that hackers are increasingly targeting soccer clubs in the Premier League in a wider attack on the country’s sports sector. In a new report on cyber threat to sports organisations, the NCSC highlighted a case where the emails of a Premier League team's managing director were hacked before transfer talks, resulting in the 1 million pounds ($1.27 million) fee nearly falling into the hands of the hackers. The report did not name the affected clubs and individuals, nor who could be behind the attacks. The agency’s report, the first of its kind on threats to the sports industry by hackers, recommended Britain’s sports sector to tighten its cybersecurity measures. About 30% of those incidents caused financial damage with an average cost of 10,000 pounds per incident, with the biggest single loss amounting to 4 million pounds.

Source: Standard Digital July 23, 2020 09:11 UTC