Caesars Entertainment paid about $15M to hackers who stole customer Social Security numbers, other info: report
MGM casinos still reeling from ‘cybersecurity issue’ as machines remain offline Caesars Entertainment reportedly paid roughly $15 million in an attempt to placate hackers who threatened to leak the sensitive customer data stolen during a summer cyberattack. The Las Vegas casino giant’s payout was approximately half of the $30 million that the hackers had demanded, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Caesars admitted that the hackers breached its systems through a “social engineering attack on an outsourced IT support vendor,” according to a regulatory [...]