Rachel Axon

USA TODAY Sports

RIO DE JANEIRO — Russian whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova has had the account where she enters her anti-doping whereabouts information hacked, according to the World Anti-Doping Agency.

A third party said Stepanova's email account was also hacked.

According to an email from a Switzerland-based group that has been supporting the Russian runner and her husband, Vitaly Stepanov, and young son, the hack was an attempt to uncover her whereabouts and potentially compromises the family’s safety.

The Stepanovs have been living in an undisclosed location in the United States since leaving Russia in late 2014 for fear of their safety as they were about to reveal widespread and state-sponsored doping in Russian athletics.

WADA announced Saturday that Stepanova’s ADAMS account – which the World Anti-Doping Agency uses for athletes to enter their whereabouts so they can be randomly drug tested – was hacked. It said it immediately locked her account and notified her of the situation.

The family immediately left their home on Friday.

According to the email, which was not signed but came from an account that has been distributing statements for the couple, WADA confirmed to the Stepanovs that her account was the only one affected. A WADA spokesman did not immediately reply to an email from USA TODAY Sports on Saturday.

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The Stepanovs have seen their life drastically change since revealing doping in Russian track and field. Vitaly Stepanov, a former Russian Anti-Doping Agency employee, first brought evidence to WADA in 2010.

The couple collected video, audio, text messages and more evidence that served as the basis of a WADA-commissioned investigation released in November that found widespread and state-sponsored doping in Russian track and field.

That team is one of the few Russian teams not competing here in Rio after the International Association of Athletics Federations banned it from international competition.

Stepanova, who served a doping ban from 2013-15 but has been tested by the IAAF for years, had petitioned the International Olympic Committee to compete here as a neutral athlete. The IOC denied that petition last month.

The IOC considered a ban of Russia entirely after a second WADA-commissioned report released in May found subversion of the anti-doping system and coverups of positive tests reaching to the highest levels of Russian sport and including nearly all Olympic sports in the country.

The IOC left the decision on Russian eligibility to the international federations that govern each sport, and it required that the Russian Olympic Committee not submit any athletes who had previously served a doping ban.

That requirement was ruled “unenforceable” by the Court of Arbitration for Sport last week. That allowed seven more Russians to compete here after their federations reviewed their anti-doping record.

The couple will hold a conference call with the media on Monday.

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