Lodge and on line casino big MGM Resorts has confirmed a “cybersecurity subject” is responsible for an ongoing outage affecting techniques on the firm’s Las Vegas properties.
“MGM Resorts just lately recognized a cybersecurity subject affecting a number of the firm’s techniques,” the corporate stated in a press release posted to X, previously Twitter, on Monday.
“Promptly after detecting the problem, we shortly started an investigation with help from main exterior cybersecurity consultants. We additionally notified regulation enforcement and took immediate motion to guard our techniques and information, together with shutting down sure techniques. Our investigation is ongoing, and we’re working diligently to find out the character and scope of the matter,” the assertion reads.
In line with stories on social media, the incident has led to outages impacting ATM money dispensers and slot machines at MGM’s Las Vegas casinos, and compelled lodge eating places to just accept cash-only funds. Friends additionally report that they can not cost something to their rooms and are unable to make use of their digital room keys.
A discover on the MGM Resorts web site — additionally affected by the continued outage — confirms that the incident impacts all of its Las Vegas resorts, together with Aria, the Bellagio, Luxor, MGM Grand, and Mandalay Bay. Friends are advising friends to name to make a reservation or to talk to a concierge,
A supply with information of the incident advised TechCrunch that each one of MGM’s properties, together with these outdoors of Las Vegas, look like affected by the incident. The web sites of a number of of MGM’s regional resorts, together with MGM Springfield in Massachusetts, MGM Nationwide Harbor, and the Empire Metropolis On line casino in New York, have been all offline on the time of writing.
Additional particulars concerning the incident, together with the character of the cyberattack and whether or not the hackers accountable have exfiltrated information from MGM’s techniques, stay unknown. It’s additionally unclear when MGM expects its pc techniques to return on-line.
An MGM spokesperson didn’t instantly reply to TechCrunch’s questions, although it’s unclear whether or not MGM workers at present have entry to company electronic mail techniques.
MGM Resorts final skilled a major cybersecurity incident final yr when the non-public info of greater than 140 million friends was shared on Telegram. The stolen information included friends’ full names, postal addresses, electronic mail addresses, cellphone numbers, dates of delivery, electronic mail addresses, and in some circumstances, passport and driver’s license numbers.
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