Cyberattack Caused Olympic Opening Ceremony Disruption
Jihye Lee, a spokesman for the Pyeongchang Organizing Committee, confirmed Sunday
that “the technology issues experienced Friday night were caused by a cyberattack.”
Mr. Lee did not elaborate on the cause but said that the attack had been quickly addressed and that systems had been stabilized by Sunday.
Security companies would not say definitively who was behind the attack,
but some digital crumbs led to a familiar culprit: Fancy Bear, the Russian hacking group with ties to Russian intelligence services.
Adam Meyers, vice president of intelligence at CrowdStrike, said his team had discovered time stamps
that showed the destructive payload that hit the opening ceremony was constructed on Dec. 27 at 11:39 a.m.
A cyberattack caused the internet disruptions during the Winter Olympics’ opening
ceremony on Friday night, Olympic officials and security experts said.