British Judo is set to begin an investigation into how the online application and renewal system was illegally breached. The breach was initially reported last week.

Since being informed of the data breach, British Judo has continued to work with programmers and partners to ensure that systems are restored to the previously secure arrangement.

British Judo Chief Executive, Andrew Scoular, said: “Firstly, we would like to apologise for any inconvenience our members have experienced due to our system being compromised. I would also like to thank our members who have contacted us and provided us with information that we can add to our ongoing case with Leicestershire Police Force.”

British Judo has appointed the Security Risk Management Company to investigate the breach and they will be on site on 23^rd March to begin their investigation.

Following initial investigation, British Judo believes that less than 100 members were affected by the breach.  One member affected is one too many and we are greatly disappointed at this situation.  British Judo would like to assure our members that we take this very seriously and once again would like to apologise to anyone affected.

Over the past two years, British Judo have installed and developed a Sport England approved Customer Relationship Management programme. This has enabled us to deliver more timely communications and access more useful and dynamic information.

As part of this continued development, we have developed a new online membership renewal and application process.

This process was due to go live on Friday 20^th March, but following the events of the last week and at the request of our Development Partner, we have delayed this to ensure that security is reviewed and additional security measures are incorporated.

We would like to thank our members for our patience while we restore our systems.