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02-10-2018, 05:56 PM
Olympic organizers hit with hack during opening ceremony
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International unity be damned.
The 2018 Winter Olympics (https://mashable.com/category/olympics/) opening ceremony was an opportunity for athletes around the world to proudly wave their nation's flag and welcome the start of a time-honored tradition of peaceful competition. Oh, and it was also a chance for another highly skilled subset of the planet's population to strut their stuff — specifically, hackers.*
SEE ALSO: All the moments you need to see from the 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony (https://mashable.com/2018/02/09/opening-ceremony-2018-winter-olympics/)
According to the South Korean news agency Yonhap News (http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2018/02/10/0200000000AEN20180210000500320.html), servers belonging to Olympic organizers were hacked during this year's Feb. 9 opening ceremony. As a result, the TVs at the main press center are said to have malfunctioned.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/09/olympic-opening-ceremony-hack/)
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International unity be damned.
The 2018 Winter Olympics (https://mashable.com/category/olympics/) opening ceremony was an opportunity for athletes around the world to proudly wave their nation's flag and welcome the start of a time-honored tradition of peaceful competition. Oh, and it was also a chance for another highly skilled subset of the planet's population to strut their stuff — specifically, hackers.*
SEE ALSO: All the moments you need to see from the 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony (https://mashable.com/2018/02/09/opening-ceremony-2018-winter-olympics/)
According to the South Korean news agency Yonhap News (http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2018/02/10/0200000000AEN20180210000500320.html), servers belonging to Olympic organizers were hacked during this year's Feb. 9 opening ceremony. As a result, the TVs at the main press center are said to have malfunctioned.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/09/olympic-opening-ceremony-hack/)
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