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MGM is down, cybersecurity attack ongoing

by codex_irl on 9/11/23, 5:44 PM with 105 comments

  • by bsimpson on 9/11/23, 7:11 PM

    Title should be "MGM Resorts Suffers Cybersecurity Attack, System Outage" (following HN norms), or at least include "Resorts." MGM Resorts was spun out of the movie studio in like the 70s.

  • by netsharc on 9/11/23, 7:48 PM

    Ocean's 0x11? I wonder if it's just an attack against their email servers or a bigger one, how networked are their operations? If we believe the urban legends about how casinos operate, there's probably interesting conversations a cyber-attacker could find.

  • by abathur on 9/11/23, 7:48 PM

    Take w/ requisite salt, but per Daily Mail [1]:

    > Thousands of guests at MGM Resorts in the Las Vegas strip have been locked out of their hotel rooms after the company was hit with a cyber attack, according to reports.

    > MGM Resorts International has about 48,000 rooms on The Strip. The company's properties include Mandalay Bay, the Bellagio, Luxor and MGM Grand, among others.

    > The outage, first detected on Sunday night, has affected company emails, reservations, booking, room keys and casino slot machines.

    [1]: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12505921/MGM-Resort...

  • by dafelst on 9/12/23, 1:44 AM

    I was at the Park MGM is Las Vegas yesterday and was unable to use the app or the automated checkout kiosks, though aside from the front desk being more busy than usual during checkin and checkout, nothing in particular seemed amiss.

  • by codex_irl on 9/11/23, 5:44 PM

  • by tpmx on 9/11/23, 7:34 PM

    I'm currently rewatching the Las Vegas (2003) NBC TV series (the one with James Caan, Josh Duhamel, James Lesure, Molly Sims, Nikki Cox, Vanessa Marcil etc). Feels on-brand; like every second ep is about some fantastic heist.

    It's worth rewatching as a guilty pleasure, IMO. Feels quite alien compared to current fare. It's dumb but well-crafted, fun and glitzy and never takes itself too seriously. I miss that kind of show.

    Surprisingly high production values for the time. It's available in 1080p with decent quality, somehow.

  • by photonthug on 9/12/23, 6:26 AM

    Maybe most of the LED displays are run by the same IT department. So if I were an evil genius, this latest attack would be only the first salvo of bewildering hijinks perpetrated in the service of a multistep heist. The ultimate goal: rickroll the entire city after hijacking The Sphere ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLCeYV0SV8k&ab_channel=Billi... )

  • by RyanAdamas on 9/11/23, 8:03 PM

    Does somebody have a magnetron?

  • by karaterobot on 9/11/23, 7:23 PM

    The linked article is down, here's an archive https://web.archive.org/web/20230911174437/https://www.casin...

    Though the article itself says details are scant, so it's just going to be speculation. I'd love to know what happened though.

  • by Animats on 9/11/23, 9:49 PM

    Almost all news available is an echo of the press release. Not much real info.

  • by nhggfu on 9/12/23, 5:06 AM

    lots of igaming hacks of late.

    other notables: Australia's crown resorts was hacked a while back (March 2023) https://gamblingindustrynews.com/news/australia/crown-potent...

    Last week stake.com was hacked https://gamblingindustrynews.com/news/technology/stake-com-4... (apparently by Lazarus group according to FBI https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-identifies-lazar... )

  • by tunnuz on 9/11/23, 7:31 PM

    Makes me think of the Sony hack by the Lazarus Group.

  • by hnburnsy on 9/12/23, 3:53 AM

  • by VFIT7CTO77TOC on 9/11/23, 11:38 PM

  • by monksy on 9/12/23, 12:26 AM

    This is the same group that brought in face recognition, and needlessly detailed data keeping on every customer and we're expected to trust them .. right?

  • by bigbillheck on 9/11/23, 8:33 PM

    If they're going to shut something down, better a casino than anywhere else.