PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — Pyeongchang Olympic organizers are investigating a possible attack on their internet and Wi-Fi systems that took place about 45 minutes before the opening ceremony.
Organizing committee spokeswoman Nancy Park said the defense ministry and a cybersecurity team were investigating the outage that occurred Friday night.
"It didn't affect the opening ceremony," Park said. "It went as planned. We just had some issue with our internal systems, but we are working to normalize that."
She said the systems were almost back to normal about 15 hours after the problems were discovered.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported that servers were shut down to prevent damage to technical systems, causing problems with the Pyeongchang Olympic website.