[Dismas]

Caesars and MGM, both well known casino titans, have both been breached within weeks of each other. Caesars paid out a $15 million ransom to the attackers.

MGM Resorts International was hacked by the same group of attackers that breached Caesars Entertainment weeks earlier, according to four people familiar with the matter.

The hackers demanded a ransom from MGM, according to two of the people. It wasn’t immediately clear how much ransom was requested or if the hackers deployed ransomware to lock up the company’s files.

Weeks after Caesars Entertainment reportedly ponied up a $15 million ransom to hackers, a group known as Scattered Spider has targeted another major US casino operator: MGM Resorts.

It breached the company's internal networks and caused a series of digital outages — the MGM website was still down as of Thursday, and social media users were posting pictures of slot machines gone dark in Las Vegas.

Read More:
https://www.businessinsider.com/mgm-caes...oup-2023-9
https://fortune.com/2023/09/13/mgm-caesa...ansomware/

[Boudica]

I wonder what it would be like doing the security for casinos right now... There's no way you're not getting a phone call after the two breaches.

[7om 8rady]

They make money hand over fist and choose not to invest in security...

[blabling2]

It wasn’t immediately clear how much ransom was requested or if the hackers deployed ransomware to lock up the company’s files.