{"id":1181748,"date":"2023-09-14T07:15:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T11:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1181748"},"modified":"2023-09-14T07:15:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T11:15:25","slug":"the-morning-after-hacking-a-vegas-casino-may-just-take-a-single-phone-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1181748","title":{"rendered":"The Morning After: Hacking a Vegas casino may just take a single phone call"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ALPHV\/BlackCat ransomware group claimed responsibility for the MGM Resorts cyber outage on Tuesday, and it apparently took the group only 10 minutes<\/a> on a phone call to glean the information needed to shut down systems and slot machines \u2014 not the slot machines! \u2014 at casinos owned by MGM Resorts.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll ALPHV ransomware group did to compromise MGM Resorts was hop on LinkedIn, find an employee, then call the Help Desk,\u201d the organization wrote in a post on X. Those details came from ALPHV but have not been independently confirmed by security researchers.<\/p>\n

MGM Resorts didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment but said on Tuesday that \u201cOur resorts, including dining, entertainment and gaming, are currently operational.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Mat Smith<\/p>\n

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