The Confederation of African Football has taken action to protect its website after it appeared to be hacked.
A Russian group called New World Hackers claims it took down the website, telling the BBC it was done “in protest” against Gabon, the host of this year’s Africa Cup of Nations.
“Gabon is a country of dictatorship,” a member of the group told BBC Sport.
Caf has added a five-second process that screens all visitors, called a Cloudflare, to alleviate the problem.
“CAF has taken action but we can’t certify 100% it will not happen again,” Junior Binyam, the governing body’s communications director, told BBC Sport.
“Even CIA servers are hacked.”
The African football body’s website was shut down for around five hours on Saturday, leading officials from African football’s ruling body to investigate a technical fault prior to deciding the issue lay elsewhere.
This year’s Nations Cup has been the subject of opposition from a section of Gabonese who have used it as a vehicle to express political grievances.
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