CONFIDENTIAL medical data of gold medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles, seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams and other female U.S. Olympians was hacked from a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) database and posted online Tuesday.

    WADA said the hackers were a “Russian cyber espionage group” called Fancy Bears.

    They revealed records of “Therapeutic Use Exemptions” (TUEs), which allow athletes to use otherwise-banned substances because of a verified medical need.

    Williams, who won a silver medal in mixed doubles at the Rio Olympics last month, issued a statement via her agent in which she said she was granted TUEs “when serious medical conditions have occurred,” and those exemptions were “reviewed by an anonymous, independent group of doctors, and approved for legitimate medical reasons.”

    Williams revealed in 2011 she had been diagnosed with Sjogren’s syndrome, an energy-sapping disease.

    “I was disappointed to learn today that my private, medical data has been compromised by hackers and published without my permission,” Williams said. “I have followed the rules established under the Tennis Anti-Doping Program in applying for, and being granted, ‘therapeutic use exemption.’”

    Another athlete named was women’s basketball gold medalist Elena Delle Donne, who had thumb surgery Tuesday and posted a post-op pic on Twitter, along with a statement saying she takes prescribed medication approved by WADA.

    In a statement, USA Gymnastics said Biles — who won five medals, four gold, in Rio last month — was approved for an exemption and had not broken any rules.

    She wrote on Twitter that she’s taken medication to treat ADHD since she was a child.

    “Please know I believe in clean sport, have always followed the rules, and will continue to do so as fair play is critical to sport and is very important to me,” Biles posted.

    WADA previously warned of cyberattacks after investigators it had appointed published reports into Russian state-sponsored doping.

    A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected WADA’s statement blaming Russian hackers as unfounded.

    “There can be no talk about any official or government involvement, any involvement of Russian agencies in those actions. It’s absolutely out of the question,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies. “Such unfounded accusations don’t befit any organization, if they aren’t backed by substance.”(SD-Agencies)