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Youtube account of Costa Rica's presidency back online after cyber attack

Man holds laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture
March 21, 2025
Reuters - Reuters

SAN JOSE (Reuters) -The official YouTube account of Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves came back under government control late on Friday after the platform suffered an hours-long cyber attack earlier in the day.

According to a presidential statement, experts from the president's office, the science and technology ministry as well as Google, worked to resolve the hack.

No details were provided on who or what entity was behind the cyber attack, or if any sensitive information had been breached.

Earlier on Friday, the YouTube presidential profile showed a logo with the word "Strategy" followed by a bitcoin symbol.

The most recent videos uploaded to the profile had contained information related to the cryptocurrency, which the presidential office assured had not come from them.

(Reporting by Alvaro Murillo; Writing by Aida Pelaez-Fernandez; Editing by Kylie Madry and Brendan O'Boyle)

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