Sundance hacked! Cyberattack shuts down box office in Park City

PARK CITY, Utah — A cyberattack briefly crippled the Sundance Movie Pageant on Saturday, knocking out the community that helps its ticket gross sales, although service on the most important field workplace was shortly restored and no screenings have been affected.

The pageant issued a press release within the afternoon, simply because the ski resort city had concluded its personal model of the Women's March on the bustling Primary Road.

Pageant organizers despatched the next assertion to Mashable:

"The Sundance Movie Pageant has been topic to a cyberattack, inflicting community outages that shut down our field workplaces. Service on the Salt Lake Metropolis Foremost Field Workplace has since been restored, and our group is working exhausting to get our Park Metropolis system again up and operating as quickly as potential. No additional details about the assault is obtainable right now. All screenings will nonetheless happen as deliberate."

It wasn't instantly clear who carried out the assault or whether or not the pageant was particularly focused.

The most important movie pageant within the U.S. kicked off Thursday night time with Al Gore's "urgent, exhilarating" An Inconvenient Sequel, and runs by means of the top of subsequent week.