{"id":1673275,"date":"2023-10-07T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/?p=1673275"},"modified":"2025-07-26T21:30:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T18:30:48","slug":"mgm-estimates-100-million-lost-to-recent-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/nz\/gambling-news\/mgm-estimates-100-million-lost-to-recent-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"MGM Resorts Estimates That a Recent Cyber Attack Will Cost Them $100 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/mgm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1673276\" src=\"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/mgm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/mgm.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/mgm-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/mgm-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/mgm-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/mgm-872x490.jpg 872w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last month MGM Resorts was attacked by hackers who managed to disrupt the company&#8217;s operations in Las Vegas. As things are back to normal, MGM had time to evaluate the damage. The estimated cost is\u00a0$100 million, and it should be covered by insurance allowing the company to recover relatively fast.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the company\u2019s Vegas properties, ARIA and Bellagio were affected as their slot machines went down and the hotel booking system was compromised. Unlike its rival Caesars, who <a href=\"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/nz\/gambling-news\/caesars-entertainment-pays-15-million-ransom-to-hackers\/\">paid hackers $15 million<\/a>, MGM Resorts refused to pay ransom and managed to get its system back under control after a while. <\/p>\n<p>It is believed that cyber criminals were able to gain access to the MGM Resorts systems after a 10-minute phone call. During the conversation with the Help Desk, they impersonated an employee after finding his or her profile on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month MGM Resorts was attacked by hackers who managed to disrupt the company&#8217;s operations in Las Vegas. As things are back to normal, MGM had time to evaluate the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1673277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1272,1470,1473],"class_list":["post-1673275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gambling-news","tag-fraud","tag-hackers","tag-land-based-casino"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"nz","enabled_languages":["en","nz","ru"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"nz":{"title":false,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"ru":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1673277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}