Who Got Hacked This Week? February 16 Edition

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Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony Hit by Cyber Attack

Winter Olympics officials have confirmed the games were hit by a cyber-attack during the opening ceremony – but have refused to confirm rumours in Pyeongchang that Russia was responsible.

Shortly before the ceremony, the official Pyeongchang 2018 site stopped working, with users unable to access information or print tickets for events. The website was only normalised at 8am on Saturday, 12 hours later.

The wifi in the Pyeonchang Olympic stadium also stopped working along with televisions and internet at the main press centre.

There are growing concerns the cyber-attack was Russian in origin, and was a response to the fact the Russian Olympic committee was banned from the games in December – along with nearly 200 Russian athletes – because of state-sponsored doping at the games in Sochi in 2014.

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