Caesars Entertainment revealed in an SEC filing that the company had been the victim of a social engineering attack on an outsourced IT support vendor used by the company.
The website and smartphone apps for the corporation have been down for almost a week.
Weeks before the attack on MGM Resorts, Caesars was attacked.
The attack severely disrupted MGM's operations, making check-in for visitors a lengthy process and rendering electronic payments, digital key cards, slot machines, ATMs, and paid parking systems useless.
Known ransomware-as-a-service organizations seem to have targeted both businesses. ALPHV.
"id": "MGM85317923",
"linkid": "mgm-resorts-international",
"type": "Cyber Attack",
"date": "09/2023",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"