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The Latest: Cyberattack team looks into outage at Olympics

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — The Latest on the Pyeongchang Olympics (all times local):

1:10 p.m.

Pyeongchang Olympic organizers are investigating a possible attack on their internet and Wi-Fi systems about 45 minutes before the opening ceremony.

Organizing committee spokeswoman Nancy Park says the defense ministry and a cybersecurity team are investigating the outage. She says the outage didn't affect Friday's opening ceremony or any competitions.

She says systems were almost back to normal about 15 hours after the problems were discovered.

South Korea's Yonhap news agency reports servers were shut down to prevent damage to technical systems, causing problems with the Pyeongchang Olympic website.