Officials confirmed that hackers were attacked the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
According to Reuters, organizers of PyeongChang Winter Olympics have confirmed that they were attacked on the day of the opening ceremony but declined to give any information about the attacker. It is reported that including the Olympic Winter Games website, TV services, including hacking but did not cause too serious impact, the main news center IPTV Friday suddenly black screen, network access, and WiFi closed, participants, can not print tickets until Saturday Back to normal.
IOC spokesman Mark Adams said:
“Maintaining secure operations is our purpose,” said International Olympic Committee (IOC) spokesman Mark Adams.
We are not going to comment on the issue. It is one we are dealing with. We are making sure our systems are secure and they are secure.” We know the cause of the problem but that kind of issues occurs frequently during the Games. We decided with the IOC we are not going to reveal the source (of the attack)”
Last month, McAfee said that the company has detected several cyber attacks on the Olympic Winter Games in the past few months, mainly through the malicious mail. Internet security expert Jim Lewis told CBS that hackers used to target the Olympics. During the Olympic Games in Beijing, London and Brazil, there are millions of attempts every day to launch cyber attacks.
Source: Reuters
