6 Cybersecurity Headaches That Sports Organizations Have to Worry About

Panelists at the 2024 Aspen Cyber Summit and related sources discussed the expanding cyber threat landscape for major sporting events, warning that athletes' social media use, e-ticketing and mobile devices, third-party streaming partners, legalized sports betting data, and broadened partner ecosystems increase opportunities for fraud, data theft, broadcast disruption, and influence operations; organizers emphasized information-sharing and public–private partnerships (and cited Russian influence activity observed around the Paris Olympics) but provided no technical indicators or single incident report.