According to a report inwards Washington Post on Sunday, USA Intelligence has works life that Russian armed forces spies hacked several hundred computers used yesteryear government during the 2018 Winter Olympic Games inwards South Korea.
Over 300 Olympic-related computers were hacked early on inwards February, continuing a string of cyber attacks inwards the Winter Olympics.
USA officials nation that this was a “false-flag” operation, where they carried out the assail spell making it seem equally though Democratic People's Republic of Korea was behind it yesteryear using North Korean IP addresses. Olympics confirmed at the commencement of the games that an assail had taken house but did non let on who the attackers were.
The assail took downward meshing together with WiFi access during the opening ceremonies on Feb 9th, equally good the event’s website, together with also illustration the failure of several other Olympic-liked websites together with broadcast systems.
Due to the attack, many attendees were unable to impress their tickets, leading to empty seats.
Some analysts believe that the assail was inwards retribution to Russia’s ban inwards the Winter Olympics afterwards an investigation into doping violations yesteryear Russia.
However, Russia’s unusual ministry building has denied Russia’s interest inwards the attacks. "We know that Western media are planning pseudo-investigations on the subject of ‘Russian fingerprints’ inwards hacking attacks on data resources related to the hosting of the Winter Olympic Games inwards the Republic of Korea," it said.
