Unknown attackers have hacked into Russian whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova`s World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) records, the watchdog announced Saturday. 
 
The runner, who was excluded from the Rio Olympics and lives in hiding in the United States, has been a key source of information on accusations that the Russian government organised doping on a massive scale. 
 
WADA said that Stepanova`s password for her account with the agency had been &quot;illegally obtained, which allowed a perpetrator to access her account&quot;. 
 
Athletes have to detail their movements on the account so that dope testers know where they can be found.&nbsp; 
 
WADA said its security monitoring had &quot;noted that someone, other than Ms. Stepanova, had accessed her account. 
 
&quot;WADA immediately locked Ms. Stepanova`s account to prevent further access and notified her of the situation.&quot; 
 
The agency said it was monitoring whether other athletes had been caught up in the phishing attack, where users are tricked into giving their personal details. 
 
&quot;The agency confirmed that some users had received illegitimate emails that look as though they come from WADA, which ask users to click on a link and enter their personal credentials,&quot; a WADA statement said. 
 
&quot;We continue monitoring the situation to determine whether or not users have acted (or act) on these emails to ensure that data remains secure,&quot; it added. 
 
&quot;Unfortunately, like many organisations, WADA is not immune to attempted cyber-attacks... WADA is in contact with the relevant law enforcement authorities.&quot; 
 
Separately, International Olympic Committee spokesman Marc Adams said the body was also undergoing &quot;particularly intense&quot; attacks from hackers during the Games. 
 
&quot;It`s not unusual to be subject to attempts to break our security... we come under regular attack from people trying to break into our security,&quot; he said. 
 
(AFP)

World Anti-Doping Agency says Russian athlete's account was 'illegally obtained, which allowed a perpetrator to access her account'

Unknown attackers have hacked into Russian whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova`s World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) records, the watchdog announced Saturday. The runner, who was excluded from the Rio Olympics and lives in hiding in the United States, has been a key source of information on accusations that the Russian government organised doping on a massive scale. WADA said that Stepanova`s password for her account with the agency had been "illegally obtained, which allowed a perpetrator to access her account". Athletes have to detail their movements on the account so that dope testers know where they can be found. WADA said its security monitoring had "noted that someone, other than Ms. Stepanova, had accessed her account. "WADA immediately locked Ms. Stepanova`s account to prevent further access and notified her of the situation." The agency said it was monitoring whether other athletes had been caught up in the phishing attack, where users are tricked into giving their personal details. "The agency confirmed that some users had received illegitimate emails that look as though they come from WADA, which ask users to click on a link and enter their personal credentials," a WADA statement said. "We continue monitoring the situation to determine whether or not users have acted (or act) on these emails to ensure that data remains secure," it added. "Unfortunately, like many organisations, WADA is not immune to attempted cyber-attacks... WADA is in contact with the relevant law enforcement authorities." Separately, International Olympic Committee spokesman Marc Adams said the body was also undergoing "particularly intense" attacks from hackers during the Games. "It`s not unusual to be subject to attempts to break our security... we come under regular attack from people trying to break into our security," he said. (AFP)

Whistleblower Stepanova's account hacked by unknown attackers

Unidentified attackers hacked a 62-year-old Hindu monastery worker to death in Bangladesh&#39;s Pabna district on Friday, police said, the latest in a series of such attacks on religious minorities in the mainly Muslim country. 
 
The latest murder came as Bangladeshi police announced a special week-long crackdown on militants as they ramp up their efforts to stem the killings with five members of a banned Islamist outfit killed in gunbattles with officers in the past three days. 
 
Nityaranjan Pande was taking his regular early morning walk when the attackers set upon him, killing him on the spot, police said. 
 
&quot;As a diabetic, everyday he walks early in the morning. Today as he was walking, several attackers hacked him in the neck. He died on the spot,&quot; local police station chief Abdullah Al-Hasan told AFP. 
 
&quot;He had been working at the monastery for about 40 years. In recent years he was the head of its office staff,&quot; he said. 
 
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. 
 
The head of police in the northwestern district of Pabna, where the Shri Shri Thakur Anukulchandra Ashram is located, said the killing bore the hallmarks of recent attacks by Islamist extremists on minorities and secular activists. 
 
&quot;There was no eye-witness to the attack as it happened very early in the morning,&quot; Alamgir Kabir told AFP. 
 
Bangladesh is reeling from a wave of murders of secular and liberal activists and religious minorities that have left nearly 50 people dead in the past three years. 
 
Police crackdown 
 
The murders have spiked in recent weeks with a gruesome wave of killings that has spanned from the capital Dhaka to remote parts of the north and coastal south. 
 
In the past week alone, an elderly Hindu priest was found nearly decapitated in a rice field, a Christian grocer was hacked to death near a church, while the wife of an anti-terrorism officer was found stabbed and shot. 
 
Her husband had led several high-profile operations against the banned Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), an Islamist militant group, in the southeastern city of Chittagong. 
 
Most of the latest attacks have been claimed either by the Islamic State group or by a South Asian branch of Al-Qaeda 
 
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina&#39;s government has, however, blamed homegrown Islamists for the attacks, rejecting claims of responsibility from IS and Al-Qaeda. 
 
The JMB is one of the main domestic militant outfits in the frame for the murders with police shooting dead five members of the group since Tuesday. 
 
Shahidul Hoque, inspector general of police, vowed in an address to a meeting of top police officials in Dhaka Thursday that those involved in the killing of the police officer&#39;s wife would be &quot;brought to justice very soon&quot;. 
 
Experts say a government crackdown on opponents, including a ban on Bangladesh&#39;s largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, following a protracted political crisis, has pushed many towards extremism. 
 
Victims of the attacks by suspected Islamists have included secular bloggers, gay rights activists and followers of minority religions. 
 
Although it is officially secular, about 90 per cent of Bangladesh&#39;s 160 million-strong population is Muslim. Some eight per cent of the population is Hindu.

The 62-year-old was attacked during his early morning walk by unidentified assailants

Unidentified attackers hacked a 62-year-old Hindu monastery worker to death in Bangladesh's Pabna district on Friday, police said, the latest in a series of such attacks on religious minorities in the mainly Muslim country. The latest murder came as Bangladeshi police announced a special week-long crackdown on militants as they ramp up their efforts to stem the killings with five members of a banned Islamist outfit killed in gunbattles with officers in the past three days. Nityaranjan Pande was taking his regular early morning walk when the attackers set upon him, killing him on the spot, police said. "As a diabetic, everyday he walks early in the morning. Today as he was walking, several attackers hacked him in the neck. He died on the spot," local police station chief Abdullah Al-Hasan told AFP. "He had been working at the monastery for about 40 years. In recent years he was the head of its office staff," he said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. The head of police in the northwestern district of Pabna, where the Shri Shri Thakur Anukulchandra Ashram is located, said the killing bore the hallmarks of recent attacks by Islamist extremists on minorities and secular activists. "There was no eye-witness to the attack as it happened very early in the morning," Alamgir Kabir told AFP. Bangladesh is reeling from a wave of murders of secular and liberal activists and religious minorities that have left nearly 50 people dead in the past three years. Police crackdown The murders have spiked in recent weeks with a gruesome wave of killings that has spanned from the capital Dhaka to remote parts of the north and coastal south. In the past week alone, an elderly Hindu priest was found nearly decapitated in a rice field, a Christian grocer was hacked to death near a church, while the wife of an anti-terrorism officer was found stabbed and shot. Her husband had led several high-profile operations against the banned Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), an Islamist militant group, in the southeastern city of Chittagong. Most of the latest attacks have been claimed either by the Islamic State group or by a South Asian branch of Al-Qaeda Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government has, however, blamed homegrown Islamists for the attacks, rejecting claims of responsibility from IS and Al-Qaeda. The JMB is one of the main domestic militant outfits in the frame for the murders with police shooting dead five members of the group since Tuesday. Shahidul Hoque, inspector general of police, vowed in an address to a meeting of top police officials in Dhaka Thursday that those involved in the killing of the police officer's wife would be "brought to justice very soon". Experts say a government crackdown on opponents, including a ban on Bangladesh's largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, following a protracted political crisis, has pushed many towards extremism. Victims of the attacks by suspected Islamists have included secular bloggers, gay rights activists and followers of minority religions. Although it is officially secular, about 90 per cent of Bangladesh's 160 million-strong population is Muslim. Some eight per cent of the population is Hindu.

Hindu monastery worker hacked to death in Bangladesh

The National Football League&#39;s&nbsp;Twitter&nbsp;account was hacked on Tuesday and a false tweet was sent that Commissioner Roger Goodell had died, an NFL spokesman said on his&nbsp;Twitter&nbsp;account.

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The <a href="https://twitter.com/NFL">@nfl</a> Twitter account was hacked. <a href="https://twitter.com/nflcommish">@nflcommish</a> is alive and well.
&mdash; Brian McCarthy (@NFLprguy) <a href="https://twitter.com/NFLprguy/status/740223398584946688">June 7, 2016</a></blockquote>
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McCarthy confirmed to Reuters that the account had been hacked.

&quot;We are reviewing and strengthening our cyber security measures,&quot; McCarthy said in an email.

He said the NFL had contacted law enforcement about the hacking but declined further comment.

The NFL&#39;s official&nbsp;Twitter&nbsp;handle sent a tweet at 12:36 p.m. ET that read, &quot;We regret to inform our fans that our commissioner, Roger Goodell, has passed away. He was 57. #RIP.&quot;

The tweet was promptly deleted, only to be followed by another rogue message, this time seemingly mocking the league.

&quot;Oi, I said Roger Goodell has died,&quot; the tweet read. &quot;Don&#39;t delete that tweet.&quot;

A&nbsp;Twitter&nbsp;spokesman declined to comment and directed inquiries to the NFL.

&quot;Roger Goodell&quot; quickly began to trend on&nbsp;Twitter, with some social media users cracking jokes.

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Fans across the nation devastated after hearing Roger Goodell was found alive this morning in his office at <a href="https://twitter.com/NFL">@NFL</a> HQ. He is 57.
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The NFL was not the only high-profile account hacked this week.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg&#39;s&nbsp;Twitter&nbsp;and Pinterest accounts were hacked on Sunday.

A series of rogue messages kept social media abuzz about "Roger Goodell's death"

The National Football League's Twitter account was hacked on Tuesday and a false tweet was sent that Commissioner Roger Goodell had died, an NFL spokesman said on his Twitter account. The @nfl Twitter account was hacked. @nflcommish is alive and well. — Brian McCarthy (@NFLprguy) June 7, 2016 McCarthy confirmed to Reuters that the account had been hacked. "We are reviewing and strengthening our cyber security measures," McCarthy said in an email. He said the NFL had contacted law enforcement about the hacking but declined further comment. The NFL's official Twitter handle sent a tweet at 12:36 p.m. ET that read, "We regret to inform our fans that our commissioner, Roger Goodell, has passed away. He was 57. #RIP." The tweet was promptly deleted, only to be followed by another rogue message, this time seemingly mocking the league. "Oi, I said Roger Goodell has died," the tweet read. "Don't delete that tweet." A Twitter spokesman declined to comment and directed inquiries to the NFL. "Roger Goodell" quickly began to trend on Twitter, with some social media users cracking jokes. Fans across the nation devastated after hearing Roger Goodell was found alive this morning in his office at @NFL HQ. He is 57. — Henry McNamara (@HenryLMcNamara) June 7, 2016 The NFL was not the only high-profile account hacked this week. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts were hacked on Sunday.

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