{"id":733831,"date":"2026-06-17T08:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T05:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bug-in-fifa-world-cup-internal-system-gave-anyone-ability-to-modify-tv-stream\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T08:20:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T05:20:27","slug":"bug-in-fifa-world-cup-internal-system-gave-anyone-ability-to-modify-tv-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bug-in-fifa-world-cup-internal-system-gave-anyone-ability-to-modify-tv-stream\/","title":{"rendered":"Bug in FIFA World Cup internal system gave anyone ability to modify TV stream"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A security researcher said she was able to access several internal FIFA platforms due to a simple security flaw, which allowed her to watch and have full control of the TV stream of every World Cup <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The researcher, who goes by BobDaHacker, said she simply registered as a player agent on FIFA\u2019s official agent registration platform. Then, thanks to having that account and a flaw in FIFA\u2019s back-end API, which didn\u2019t check if a user actually had the proper authorization, she was able to access several internal FIFA platforms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This included the system that allows broadcasters to control what gets displayed on people\u2019s TVs across the world, and what gets displayed on commentators\u2019 screens as they narrate the match, per the researcher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA single attacker could hijack every camera simultaneously. An attacker could have rickrolled the entire FIFA World Cup,\u201d BobDaHacker wrote <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bobdahacker.com\/blog\/fifa-hack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">in a blog post<\/a> published on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BobDaHacker reported the flaw on Tuesday night Japan time, and FIFA fixed the issue a few hours later, without ever acknowledging the researcher\u2019s report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FIFA did not im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely respond to TechCrunch\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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