The governing body of track and field says it has been hacked by Fancy Bears, the Russian hacking group that previously attacked the World Anti-Doping Agency.
The IAAF issued a statement on Monday saying it believes the hack "has compromised athletes' Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) applications stored on IAAF servers" during an unauthorised remote access to its network on February 21.
"Our first priority is to the athletes who have provided the IAAF with information that they believed would be secure and confidential," IAAF president Sebastian Coe said.
"They have our sincerest apologies and our total commitment to continue to do everything in our power to remedy the situation."
The IAAF said it had been in contact with athletes who have applied for TUEs since 2012.
The Fancy Bears group began posting medical records of Olympians online last year, with US and British athletes making up a large proportion of those targeted. Only selected records were released.
Context Information Security, a British security company, says it was contacted in January to protect the IAAF's systems.
The company says that investigation "led to the discovery of a sophisticated intrusion."
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