As well as Farah, who completed a second straight 5,000-10,000 metres double at the Rio Olympics last month, the Fancy Bears have posted the TUEs given to Britain’s Olympic golf champion Justin Rose and Spanish tennis great Rafa Nadal.
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Rower Helen Glover, a two-time Olympic champion, 800m silver medal victor Francine Niyonsaba, swimmers Laszlo Cseh and Connor Jaeger, as well as fencing gold medal victor Gauthier Grumier are also among the latest batch of 26 athletes to have been targeted by the hackers.
Other high-profile names included Burundi’s Francine Niyonsaba, British cyclist Callum Skinner and double Olympic rowing gold medallist Helen Glover.
Olympic silver medal winning 3000m steeplechaser Evan Jager is one of four Americans named on the latest list.
Documents relating to Farah, and published on the fancybear.net website, showed that the distance runner had no active Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs) at the time of the Olympics.
But just as Wiggins still faces questions over three injections of a powerful corticosteroid that he had not disclosed before, the first of Farah’s two TUEs became the immediate focus of the most recent leak as it was for the same drug prescribed to Wiggins – triamcinolone – and it seemed he had previously admitted to only one TUE.
In 2015, the Briton was reported in The Guardian as having said that he had only ever taken one TUE in his career.
There is no evidence of any wrongdoing by the athletes involved.
Nadal was granted permission to take steroid medication betamethasone in 2009, and then in 2012 he received further clearance to take corticotrophins.
WADA have already blamed a Russian group and has approached the country’s Government to assist it in its investigation.
Fancy Bear has previously posted data for US athletes Simone Biles, Elena Delle Donne, and Serena and Venus Williams as well as Tour de France-winning British cyclists Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome.
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Cyclist Laura Trott and boxer Nicola Adams are also among those named.
