Belgium
Football
Personal & Organizational Data
For Sale
Unverified
Royal Belgian Football Association Dataset Offered for Sale With 346,685 Unique Names Claimed
Overview
A poster using the handle "RedStone" claims to be selling a dataset belonging to the Royal Belgian Football Association (RBFA). The listing describes the RBFA as Belgium's official football association and says the material contains information tied to players, team members, club officials, referees, clubs, teams and international football records.
The post claims 346,685 unique full names across the material and lists 2,859,241 PlayerStatistics rows, 492,332 team-member rows, 531,907 referee appointment entries, contact information, dates of birth, addresses, VAT numbers, player photographs and additional structural records. The seller advertises 1,000 samples and asks interested buyers to make an offer. The dataset, its source, the stated counts and the seller's claim of possessing the full dataset have not been independently verified.
Post details
BelgiumWhat the post claims
- 346,685 unique full names
- 492,332 team-member rows
- 2,859,241 PlayerStatistics rows
- 10,081 club-official rows
- 53,298 club-card rows
- 531,907 referee appointment entries
- 86,398 international career-history rows
- 5,691 international records
- 60,396 search-index profile rows
- 4,232 unique referees
- 7,315 people associated with date-of-birth data
- 6,503 distinct player-photo URLs and 12,483 image files
- 3,172 unique email addresses
- 5,307 unique phone numbers, plus 28 fax values
- 7,255 unique addresses
- 1,606 VAT numbers and 487 club websites
- 4,345 clubs and 284,419 teams
- 13 PlayerStatistics seasons covering 2015-2027
The listing also references club and team membership/statistics links, content pages, commissions, terrain records, club information records and disciplines including football, futsal, gfootball and minifoot. These figures are presented by the seller and have not been independently validated.
Screenshots
IOCs & contact identifiers
Identifiers directly visible in the listing. These support correlation and do not independently identify the person operating the account or verify the dataset claim.
| Type | Identifier | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Actor handle | RedStone | Screenshot 1 |
| Telegram | redstone_group | Screenshot 2 |
| Session ID | 05c656825a879b6da23efd56f9533169ae3ba7f5710f7a225c2bae9eabab187737 | Screenshot 2 |
No Tox ID, malware hash, attacker-controlled domain or attacker-controlled IP address is visible in the supplied material. URLs to any data will always be blurred out, but are available for subscribers on the threat feed or ransomware feed.
Mapped techniques
Claimed identifies behavior explicitly described by the actor. Inferred identifies an analytical mapping supported by the supplied material. Neither label means the activity has been independently verified.
- Collection T1213.006 Data from Information Repositories: Databases Inferred The listing describes a large structured dataset containing player, membership, referee, club, team and contact records. The supplied material does not reveal how the data was obtained or establish unauthorized access to RBFA systems.
Potential impact
If authentic, the claimed dataset could expose names, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses and organizational relationships involving players, officials, referees and clubs. Those details could support targeted phishing, impersonation and other social-engineering activity. The listing also claims player photographs, VAT numbers and extensive historical and statistical records.
Status Unverified
Dark Web Informer has not independently verified the dataset's authenticity, source, completeness, current availability or any of the row, identifier or contact-information counts stated by the seller. The supplied material shows the listing and its claims, not the full dataset itself.
