2023-09-15 20:01:15
Par Ingrid Vergara
Published 3 hours ago, Updated 1 hour ago
The Bellagio Casino Hotel in Las Vegas is one of the jewels of the MGM Resorts International empire. diegograndi / stock.adobe.com
The paralysis of the systems of the large American network has multiple financial consequences.
Paralyzed slot machines, delayed transfers of winnings, impossible online hotel and restaurant reservations, deactivated electronic room keys, hundreds of meters of queues of disgruntled customers waiting to check-in… Since one week, chaos is total within the empire MGM Resorts Internationalthe largest hotel-casino operator in the United States.
The owner of the famous Bellagio, Cosmopolitan and Excalibur in Las Vegas has been the victim for a week of a ransomware attack which paralyzes large sections of his information systems. However, MGM Resorts International is an extremely digital group, with very interconnected information systems. This guarantees great operational efficiency when everything is going well, but can prove to be an Achilles heel when criminals manage to find a loophole.
These hackers are recent entrants into the multi-billion dollar international cybercrime industry. Baptized…
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