Fédération Francaise de Rugby data breach
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This article is about the July 2023 breach of Fédération Francaise de Rugby. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Fédération Francaise de Rugby data breach exposed 281,977 accounts from ffr.fr in July 2023. The data taken includes dates of birth, names, email addresses and phone numbers.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 22 May 2025, 23 months later. It is the 527th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Fédération Francaise de Rugby’s breach included 4 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Dates of birth | Used to prove who you are to banks and phone companies. |
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| Phone numbers | Expect scam texts and calls, and a higher risk of someone moving your number to their SIM. |
What to do
- Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, Fédération Francaise de Rugby among them, without showing the data.
- Distrust messages that mention Fédération Francaise de Rugby.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
- Put a PIN on your phone account.Ask your mobile provider for a port-out PIN, so no one can move your number to their SIM.
Timeline
- : the breach, as best it can be dated.
- : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 23 months later.
- : the entry was last updated.
Breaches often stay hidden for a long time. Until it came out, people in it had no reason to change anything.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Angel One, April 2023, 6.8 million accounts
- RentoMojo, April 2023, 2.2 million accounts
- Terravision, February 2023, 2.1 million accounts
- HDB Financial Services, February 2023, 1.7 million accounts
- Dymocks, June 2023, 836,120 accounts
- Hot Topic, October 2024, 57 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Fédération Francaise de Rugby”, Have I Been Pwned, added 22 May 2025. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- ffr.fr, Fédération Francaise de Rugby’s website