Deportivo de La Coruña reports a cybersecurity incident affecting the data of members and shareholders.

No institution is immune to cybercrime, not even football clubs. The latest to be affected has been the historic Deportivo de la Coruña . The Galician team sent an email this Wednesday to its members, supporters, and shareholders, whose contact information it has stored, reporting a "cybersecurity incident" that "has affected one of its databases and resulted in unauthorized access to its identification and contact information."

In the email, the club confirmed that the incident occurred "last Friday, May 16, was resolved immediately, and the matter was reported to both the State Security Forces and the Spanish Data Protection Agency ."

Even so, team officials urge in the email that you "take extreme precautions when receiving suspicious calls, emails, or messages" and remind you that "Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña will never contact you through these means to request your personal information." Therefore, if you receive an email or SMS with a link, do not provide personal or financial information through these means , the message adds.

It also specifies that "the incident originated from a security breach in our server environment hosted on AWS (Amazon Web Services), which allowed unauthorized access to a database" and that "appropriate measures have been taken to prevent the security breach from recurring, and appropriate legal action will be taken against the company responsible."