MGM Resorts Breached by ‘Scattered Spider’ Hacking Group

 

MGM Resorts is still dealing with severe outages as a result of a hack that led it to shut down systems across its facilities. 

MGM, which owns and runs several Las Vegas Strip hotels and casinos, including the Bellagio, Aria, and Cosmopolitan, took down large parts of its internal networks on Sunday. 

This caused considerable disruption throughout the company’s hotels and casinos, with customers claiming that ATMs and slot machines, as well as room digital key cards and electronic payment systems, were out of service. 

The downtime has now entered its fifth day, with MGM noting in a Thursday statement that it was attempting to “resolve our cybersecurity issue.” Guests continue to report problems at MGM locations, despite the company’s earlier assurance that its resorts, including restaurants, entertainment, and gaming, are “currently operational.”

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