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