French Football Federation faces own-goal after club software data breach

The French Football Federation (FFF) has conceded that attackers broke into its member management software using a compromised account, scoring a match sheet's worth of player data in the process. The FFF, French football's national governing body, is the outfit that organizes everything from Sunday league pitch markings to …

[Brave Coward]

So the attackers scored, but what was their goals?

[MachDiamond]

One application to rule them all and in the darkness bind them.

The article makes it seem like the FFF took a page from the Lunar Authority handbook, bought one big computer and ran everything through it. If I were a Premier league footballer and was making big money, I'd not want my entire personnel folder being published to the world or stored in a way that it's easy to get at. Not even if I were playing at a lower level.

In a bank, there's a lock on the front door, a room with an even stouter lock and many locked compartments inside that. There's nearly always alarms wrapped around those locks to raise a hew and cry should they be compromised. They don't just pile the cash on a desk overnight in plain view with only a lock on the front door.