Datasport

Datasport, also known by its alias, is a Swiss‑based organisation that provides sports‑related services to event organisers and participants. Its core offerings include online platforms for registering athletes in competitions and for tracking their performance results. These services are used by a variety of sports events ranging from local races to larger regional competitions across multiple disciplines. By focusing on the amateur sports sector, Datasport supports the administration and documentation of participant data. The organisation’s platforms are designed to handle the full lifecycle of an event, from sign‑up to final results publication.

In January 2024, Datasport experienced a cyberattack that exposed personal information of up to one million amateur athletes. The compromised data consisted mainly of names, telephone numbers and email addresses that users had shared publicly through the organisation’s registration and tracking systems. Shortly after the breach, the stolen records were offered for sale on a hacker forum, indicating malicious intent to monetise the information. Although the attack first seemed limited, subsequent investigations revealed the full scale of the exposure. Investigations later showed that more than 900 000 of the affected records belonged to individuals residing in Switzerland, with the remainder linked to residents of neighbouring countries. Importantly, the breach did not reveal security‑sensitive details such as passwords or payment information, which remained protected.

The incident highlighted Datasport’s specialisation in managing large volumes of participant data for sports events, a function that distinguishes it from generic IT service providers. Its positioning within the Swiss sports technology landscape is characterised by a focus on non‑professional athletics and the provision of end‑to‑end registration and results solutions. This concentration enables the organisation to develop competencies in handling event‑specific data flows while adhering to the privacy expectations of amateur sports communities. No information about Datasport’s ownership, parent company or subsidiary structure is disclosed in the available sources, so those details remain unspecified.