Hackers freeze slot machines at MGM casinos

Some hackers managed a hit on Caesars Palace and Harrah’s, causing many customers to have their driver’s license and social security information stolen. At MGM properties, hackers reportedly froze slot machine screens and ATMs, including at the Bellagio and MGM Grand. CNN’s Jon Sarlin and former general counsel at National Security Agency Glenn Gerstell discuss with Jim Acosta. #CNN #News

[@craigsavarese8631]

Would have been nice if they made every slot machine hit the jackpot. Now that would be a news story.

[@Look_What_You_Did]

Taking that money is a felony. No joke, so don't ever take money that you did not win. Even a coin off the floor.

[@korymulanax3362]

​@@Look_What_You_Did 100%

[@tickleishpickle9269]

that makes no sense @ look.....how would it be a felony if you thought you won because some hacker you didnt know made you win ? thats the dumbest logic ive ever heard XD

[@tickleishpickle9269]

thats like saying hey i found a penny on the ground so i thought i had good luck, and the police come and arrest you and send you to prison because you should have known that it was a trick XD lmao

[@joeb134]

The casino wouldn't pay.

[@dgaf85renegade]

What a great time to reflect on my many years of saving money and never messing around with casinos.

[@raylopez99]

That's the only way to win in Vegas, to not play at all. I've been to Vegas several times for bachelors parties and the few times I won at blackjack I've lost at Pai Gao poker (never could figure out the rules). Once I hit the same number at the spin the vertical wheel (not roulette, but the vertical one) and won 40:1 I think it was, but I lost it later that night. You can't win in Vegas and if you do win a lot, as once happened to me when playing blackjack, a big goon shows up and stands right next to you to intimidate you in case you are card counter or some kind of cheater.

[@ToyvideosKh]

Hello

[@Upper-cr1kh]

​@@raylopez99you're a prime example of no self control 😂 playing games that you don't know the rules for 😂

[@michaelblankenau6598]

You don't know what your talking about .

[@matclairoux]

I went once in a casino. Played 20$, left with 75$. Small amount but i will never go back and can say i beat the house!

[@edwarddelgado9654]

That's what happens when you outsource IT work offshore -- cutting corners in best practices and creating vulnerabilities. Trying to save money can be very expensive.

[@MA-te5nw]

Agreed, I worked for Caesars and there IT is a joke. They outsource and consolidate IT at a corporate level. They don't have personnel on the ground at most of their properties and their compliance is laughable.

[@claireconover]

greed creates risk.

[@LuigiMordelAlaume]

Especially when something like in house IT is essentially an insurance expense - it might cost a little more, but cutting that cost increases their exposure to catastrophic losses. These casinos would lose about $1m every hour in lost revenue and likely around $500k in non-gambling expenses (employees, equipment, utilities, subleases, etc) so every hour they're losing like $1.5m... Every hour could pay the difference in savings if they had in house IT 😏

[@jont2576]

I'm pretty sure the casinos will go to any lengths to make sure no one fks with their dough.Considering how much money is in the industry. I mean if u think about it just how much effort they dedicate to regular security in their casinos.....this is an industry that has been dealing with people trying to steal from them since the beginning of time with varying techniques and more and more sophistication. I'm pretty sure the slot machines aren't connected to the internet and are isolated in itself or at most on a lan network. I'm only surprised they didn't find the hacker and have each and every one of his fingers smashed with a ball peen hammer.

[@taekwondotime]

This is why you shouldn't rely heavily on technology. Bring back KEYS and delete KEY CARDS for rooms. Bring back physical slot machines with the pull lever and the tumblers. Bring back CASH payment. You can't hack the society of 40 years ago. All of this stuff was impossible back then. We are setting ourselves up for disaster.

[@allengreg5447]

"....paying ransoms is a gamble". Said without a hint of irony.

[@aurorajones8481]

LOL I thought the same thing. Thats rich.

[@aurorajones8481]

RED 22 LET IT ROOOOOOOOOOOLL!!

[@sealslots]

LOL

[@Uvoted4this]

- BREAKING NEWS - Slot players in Las Vegas, for the first time in history, were saved from losing over six billion dollars in a day.

[@3x3mm]

That's the b e s t part.

[@cindyweir9645]

They’ve been stealing peoples money for years. That’s what they get.

[@cindot2520]

Omg the poor ppl working the front desk!! They got slammed 🤦‍♀️

[@khawmtiti4460]

Why? Hopefully they're not Trump supporters

[@cindot2520]

@@khawmtiti4460 I've worked front desk! Guests can be brutal when things don't work properly! Even if it's out if the front desk's control.

[@user-pi2lq]

They getting a ear full of angry customers

[@Uouttooo]

Time to take a toilet break!

[@greenmonk941991]

I worked front desk many years. I’m with you

[@mellem4653]

It's sad when rich corporations get too greedy and skimp on beefing up their cybersecurity.

[@Anndelindevore]

Especially when you think where this money might go to now. Haven't seen a Robin Hood yet.

[@juju-xx5xn]

Exactly!! They don't want to spend the money to do it right.

[@jamesmcbeth4463]

They aren't worried. They are confident that the government will give them money to stay in business.

[@disorganizedorg]

@@jamesmcbeth4463 No... they're confident of a never-ending supply of suckers to fleece.

[@unsilentmajority1684]

Yes. This would never happen to the federal government.

[@merovingian688]

The IT department knew they were vulnerable but the finance department probably denied the request to upgrade. Acceptable risk

[@i0x_x0i]

No. IT department: we want a raise. Finance department: no. IT department: ok, we’ll have outside people help to hack it.

[@merovingian688]

@@i0x_x0i They’re learning the hard and very expensive way. Maybe the got cybersecurity insurance. You see the smash and grab going on because businesses opted for insurance over actual security

[@journeywithnichole]

Finance depts do not approve dept budgets. They just enter the budgets in the system for accounting & reporting purposes. It is the top execs that approve specific department budgets

[@merovingian688]

@@journeywithnichole He’s and arm of Finance. His background is finance. It’s all about finance. Boeing learned the hard way. The day Elon Musik steps down and put a finance guy in charge instead of an engineer, I’m selling my Tesla. Budget/Finance same difference.

[@twistedyogert]

Well that's one way to kill a gambling addiction. In all seriousness, Why would you connect the elevators to the Internet? That doesn't seem very safe if the elevator quits while people are in it because a phone line goes dead.

[@Look_What_You_Did]

What kind of loser believes an elevator relies on a "phone line"? Elevators are critical infrastructure for high rise buildings. Network connectivity is how you monitor and report operational dependencies.

[@haven_lady675]

That does sound stupid.

[@AngeloBarovierSD]

We now live in a world where the hacker movies from the 90’s, which were ridiculed for suggesting computers would control mechanical things like elevators and cars, are now prophetic works.

[@disorganizedorg]

...and while ATMs require some sort of connectivity, shouldn't that be independent of things like elevators and door keys?

[@TheRobWay1]

Probably like any other device on a building automation system- so they can get data or troubleshoot remotely

[@lynemac2539]

Yet another reason not to hook everything up to the Internet. The idea of a car that can be turned off remotely just freaks me out.

[@blackjesus804]

Not the Internet they can infiltrate private networks.

[@stormsiren7207]

This is what happens when you have everything online or connected to the Internet. Do we really need or want things like elevators and the locks to the hotel rooms connected to the internet?

[@Look_What_You_Did]

They are not connected to the internet. They are connected to a network.

[@peterlongprong7521]

one day SKYNET is going to screw humanity, and the killer robots will have a good laugh

[@vincentvargas923]

Hell no.

[@michaelopheim7549bmw]

Just wait till all the cars turn left on the freeway going 65mph on a friday

[@amandab3946]

Take the STAIRS? What are you, mad?! 😱

[@TheGrimReaper9884]

Remember the old days, when you had to physically be in a building to rob/extort it? Technology. eh?

[@RodRod82]

I thought Las Vegas was supposed to have top-of-the-line security / cutting-edge?

[@MoonCrater.]

Yeah that’s not good 😢

[@Thr3atlvlmidnight]

I guess cutting edge just don't cut it these days😂

[@georgelayton6641]

Inside job?

[@thomasholt63]

@@Thr3atlvlmidnight 😂 😂

[@thomasholt63]

@@MoonCrater. 😂

[@Cynewise_]

This certainly hasn’t been a boring year.

[@renee9937]

And the year isn’t over yet 🤯

[@cindyweir9645]

Too much going on😢

[@michaeltoney2277]

This is why we can’t have 80 year old lawmakers running things. They don’t even understand enough to know where the threats come from.

[@michaelblankenau6598]

A business got hacked . What does that have to do with 80 year old lawmakers ?

[@eliharp3576]

What an assumption!!! Typically our elders have accumulated knowledge.

[@AwesomePossum1987]

True. Is an 80 year old turd really the best america can offer? Biden and Trump are both to old to take good choices for the people. They are out of touch with the social standard.

[@jimjackson4256]

Yea but they have 2000 years of accumulated experience.

[@USS-SNAKE-ISLAND]

An absolutely useless non-sequitur. Congratulations.

[@jonathanalaniz2392]

Why did it take a week for this to hit the news?

[@57blondylocks]

I follow some gamblers on KZbin they reported it days and days ago. I don’t buy the story their telling anyway…lol it’s good for the masses

[@shhhhh.242]

If hackers can manipulate the machines. So can the Casino 🤔🤨 Just Saying

[@danstrayer111]

disrupting the entire system is probably easier than manipulating a machine.

[@lynemac2539]

It's all very "James Bond".

[@Look_What_You_Did]

Nope. Machines can not be manipulated remotely. Like the trumptard emojis... you do your party proud with your ignorance.

[@sclogse1]

If a slot player doesn't know this, they must have grown up in a kangaroo pouch..

[@cherrydoctorpepper7]

Yes. I agree. The casinos may be manipulating slot machines to pay out less than what is required. I would not be surprised if that was true. Maybe the hackers have proof of slot machine manipulation.

[@KasimOwens-ux8cj]

We are living in the world where people commit fraud. All the time.

[@an.american]

Starting with Hunter Biden and the Big Guy

[@avidadolares]

@@an.american 91 indictments is nothing to sneeze at. Maybe if you send more money , it will all go away. Try it.

[@danstrayer111]

It's worse than that. The real problem is also the normalization of fraud and a host of other bad behaviors.

[@thomasholt63]

Last days book of revelations is fulfilling its prophecy for sure and look at the economy and the value of our money 💵 and most of the money going towards military mite

[@thomasholt63]

@@an.american Jared kushner and Trump favorite daughter Ivanka Trump

[@shayneomac780]

Another healthy reminder of why physical CASH is extremely important

[@sclogse1]

At least a couple months of needed cash stashed.

[@mhall801]

And another reason not to trust mail in voting machines.

[@colestone14]

I think the biggest surprise is I didn’t know slot machines can be hacked

[@dopechef228]

Everything is rigged😂😂😂

[@Mrs.Walker]

Me, either🤔

[@jonathannagela2130]

@@Mrs.Walker only off or on, they dont create payouts that get paid.

[@WildlifeWarrior-cr1kk]

It's a computer

[@CaraT1978]

Old school ones can’t ! I’m talking OLD school

[@grandrapladyakaamb2438]

It only takes one misstep from an employee answering an email to compromise an entire network.

[@timothyslaughter476]

Thank God no one figured out how to fix that backdoor. I'm sure it's very difficult to figure out how to fix that minor issue. But I'm sure human resources has had meetings to remind everyone to be careful and not to say the women in the office look nice today!

[@Look_What_You_Did]

Not accurate. It is NEVER a single action.

[@timothyslaughter476]

@Look_What_You_Did fake news huh??? Sure hear alot of reports of this happening but it sounds like you're sure.

[@sjones3191]

This is the way

[@bumblebootwiddletoes5185]

​@@Look_What_You_Did🙄 I bet you're fun to be around.

[@MrNb22]

This is what happens when you run bare minimum on hiring of IT staff

[@Yourmission9]

Isn’t that the truth, or contract it out to the lowest bidder

[@chefdsal1]

He said the casino paying a ransom is a gamble with no irony in his voice

[@JandiFX]

😮 Imagine you just won the Major jackpot on slots... then the system goes down 💀😭🤣

[@Look_What_You_Did]

Data is saved and can be validated.

[@JandiFX]

@Look_What_You_Did 😁 all slots have a tiny small print on them, "any malfunctions voids winnings" trust, happened to me 😭

[@MrThe1234guy]

​@Look_What_You_Did Data is gone and can't be recovered. Hackers own it all.

[@Mattyjay.FDT3]

GQP: We are the party of law & order. 19 repubs get indicted in Georgia. GQP: How dare you enforce the law?

[@MajorAnthonyNelson]

Fraudulent Indictments by a small LOCAL county Dem 🤡

[@AverageJoe483]

DNC : we want open borders !! Sanctuary cities !!! DNC : hey they can’t come to our states , SEND THEM BACK !

[@thomasholt63]

Exactly 🎭 they're all demonic souls for sure

[@teddybetts3254]

🤨 I think you mean GOP... unless GQP means something else I'm not aware of.

[@AverageJoe483]

@@teddybetts3254 he is trying to saying that all of the GOP are Q cultists .

[@danielthomas1898]

Jesus, now could they get our student loans or credit cards taken care of. I wouldn't complain.

[@noneshere]

Pay your debts. America deserves it's returns invested. Loan forgiveness will only be Double Theft of American tax payer dollars

[@kevinpreston5590]

Pay your debts.

[@bumblebootwiddletoes5185]

​@@russellhammond371The hackers. He is asking them to hack into companies and completely wipe all customer data including any and all backups. That way they have no record of debts.

[@bumblebootwiddletoes5185]

​@@kevinpreston5590I'm sure he is... But would prefer not to.

[@margaretcastellano3167]

Love Jim Acosta! So professional and great interviews. Why is he only on the weekends!?

[@jimpawa5793]

It’s always amazed me how the casinos use their player programs to track customers and threaten anyone who they believe (could) cheat the casino. It’s a hoot the hackers get them.

[@PeterSedesse]

All you need to do is find one IT tech working at a casino that has a gambling addiction and you are off too the races.

[@freesparks1931]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 NO MORE VIG!!

[@jamaalcurry8990]

But if it can be shut down via a program, doesn't that also mean they can be rigged by the casino......

[@danstrayer111]

so what? Gambling machines by their nature and design are rigged. That's how 100 million dollar casinos are built. Knowing that gambling involves taking ridiculous chances is common knowledge.

[@jamaalcurry8990]

@@danstrayer111 noted, but it stands to reason that it exposed it once and for all

[@danstrayer111]

@@jamaalcurry8990 It also stands to reason that if one hotel cuts their payouts, other hotels will benefit from it. They are all competing for traffic, so I think keeping the correct payout is a daily calculation. Seems like these hackers could have had players on the inside

[@lynemac2539]

​@@jamaalcurry8990Lots of things get exposed and yet they keep going on and on. Anyone come to mind?!

[@Look_What_You_Did]

That is defective thinking reaching for biased logic to affirm the defective thinking. No: Disabling a machine does NOT mean they can be "rigged" for anybodies benefit. Just the opposite. Default unknown status: shut down. Error: shut down. Fail safe. Look it up before running your mouth with unsubstantiated narratives.

[@queenfud3798]

Someone needs to get these casinos to beef up their cyber security.

[@EpicATrain]

This is so stupid that you would connect so many things to the internet. Like seriously, why does an elevator need the internet to function?

[@philscott7949]

"High level security questions" - stuff most people post on Facebook without thinking.

[@introvertsrock9843]

Don't they already hire hackers to test their systems to avoid this? Proof...sometimes the past is better (when doors open WITH 🔑)

[@susie_rigas]

I am not shocked. Last time I was there in Jan of 2020, right before the pandemic, I noticed one of their large screens on the casino floor (It was actually multiple screens forming one large screen that would be used for advertising) had the Microsoft update alert on it stating the update was required on a certain date. That date was two weeks prior to the moment I was sitting there staring at the screens. I still have a picture of this saved on my phone because I saw it as extremely alarming.

[@CoolsBreeze]

There needs to be heavier punishments for companies that store personal information.

[@aardque]

_Punishment_ for storing personal information? You are not _required_ to expose your vulnerability to a casino and my bank has never been hacked. It seems incredibly foolish and fiscally irresponsible to blame intermediaries in pleasure expenditures for personal lapses of judgement.

[@AllergicToMakeBelieve]

​@cassandra9699Yes, here you are, using a service provided to you for free by Google, so you should expect to be forced to sign into Google to use it. An effective way to not be forced to use Google services, would be to stop using Google services. No one forces you to use KZbin.

[@aardque]

@cassandra9699 Sorry? You are expecting to be able to send anonymous communications across the internet? Do you expect to blackmail and threaten innocent people without consequence? _Of course_ you would have to verify your identity, log onto your email client, Gmail (Google), Yahoo, AOL, or whatever, before sending messages, why would you even expect otherwise? It sounds like you don't understand how communication, or the internet works. Is this true?

[@angelsmith9421]

Mob would have had them killed.

[@gian19791]

Lawsuit coming 😮😢

[@deejay1216]

America’s Cyber Security is seriously embarrassing at this point! Remember in 2020, the head of Cuber Security quit because he said our systems are that of Kindergarten compared to Europe!!

[@noneshere]

Everything you buy with the dollar is crap because it devalues faster then it can be spent. You can't buy quality with the dollar anymore.

[@andrewgordon790]

⁠​⁠@@nonesherelol ok Ivan💪! Here’s your daily ration of 🥔 for your insightful comment! Say hi to Kim for me bud👍😂

[@lauraz2896]

European companies are getting hacked too

[@Look_What_You_Did]

@@andrewgordon790 Says the clown trying to clap back using emojis...

[@Look_What_You_Did]

That is NOT why he resigned... Fk you can't even spell or capitalize correctly... Why would you get facts right...

[@doriwilson6991]

This is what happens when your business depends upon computers to stay running. Hackers are going to keep coming back to get paid when they know they have you by the cajones

[@patrickshaw8187]

They probably had security holes to gain info from their guests.

[@bwmcelya]

What a crackup. No honor among thieves. I do care about employees and hope they get their paychecks. For MGM, hell, it’s just another day, no big loss.

[@junea3259]

Hackers did NOT Freeze the slot machines .!!!!!!!!! The Central servers on the machines MGM turned them off because it keeps track of players rewards and statistics was shut down and would not accept or dispense any tickets for Safety . The actual gaming part of the machines are NOT connected to a server or the Internet hence NOT Hackable .

[@Look_What_You_Did]

Correct.

[@larrybarela8676]

Then who did this, and how?

[@JoePAcalaughs]

​@@larrybarela86766:53, then you'll hear the motivating reason behind the "whom".

[@justinmiller1118]

It shouldn't be possible to call the Help Desk to get a new password. You should have to go in person.

[@andreacraik9757]

Here in Oregon… in the last year, I’ve been notified that my DMV records have been hacked, my banking information has been hacked, and my Medical records have been hacked. 3 separate events involving EVERYONE! So basically, at this point… there is no point to passwords! But to make me feel better (about something I have ZERO control over) they gave me a free year of credit monitoring! 😢😅 yay! 😢

[@larrybarela8676]

This is why you should never keep all your money in the bank, just enough to cover the bills!

[@MF-ty2zn]

Freeze your credit to prevent anyone from opening up credit in your name.

[@Look_What_You_Did]

Bet you are one of those bright people that uses one or maybe two common passwords on all your accounts...

[@larrybarela8676]

@@Look_What_You_Did How did you know? I also write all my checks in crayon.

[@andreacraik9757]

@@Look_What_You_Did They didn’t hack me… they hacked the DMV, the insurance company, and the bank! They got over 3 million people just from the dmv! So my passwordssss had nothing to do with it!

[@nichellepeck4686]

It just shows that we’re so vulnerable. Do away with all these passwords to regain entry.

[@Look_What_You_Did]

We're? You got turds in your pockets?

[@ParaRob]

Yeah, now imagine the power grid and dams running on systems where the passwords were "password" or "admin," etc. cuz that was actually the case not too long ago. I wish I was kidding, but that was a very real thing just a few years ago until the right people opened their eyes. Now, they actually offer bounties to hackers, and if they can show these big companies their vulnerabilities, they will pay them good money for it. WW3 will be heavily influenced by cyber attacks, so it's high time that everyone starts taking cyber security a lot more seriously. Whats really crazy is that there are hackers out there who can do some pretty serious damage, and all it takes is for them to get bored one day to do it. A bored hacker is a very dangerous scenario. What's more dangerous are hackers who are trained by our enemies and do what they do because it's their job or "duty." Sh*t can get real really fast.

[@PearlTreasureHunter]

yes It just shows that we’re so vulnerable. Do away with all these passwords to regain entry

[@AaronEbrahim]

Speak for yourself. I'm an IT professional nobody will hire because I have a small felony. I'm secure. You guys aren't.

[@loricannon2988]

Wow. The password system was breakable from the beginning. But they knew that so…. .

[@portablefrog2249]

As a hacker, i see this as an absolute win!

[@paulaitix77]

Once they realized they were being hacked they shut off various systems to identify where threat coming from

[@dominicm2175]

I agree…at the first sign of being hacked they likely have a protocol in place to shut down all their networks because no way slot machines and elevators and key cards are all on the same system

[@noneshere]

They never should of been linked on a network. 1 thing a hacker cannot beat is a simple manual switch.

[@Look_What_You_Did]

No you disable systems and networks to mitigate risks. Doing so actually makes it more difficult to identify causation because suddenly that traffic goes away. Looking for thieves robbing a bank gets a whole lot harder when you take the bank away.

[@Spurs2k23]

​@@nonesherethat's not what happened here and not what happens most of the time. 98% of "Hacks" are done with social engineering. This whole nonsense that hack network, switches, ect....these are not common when talking about "Hacking". I've been in IT for almost 2 decades, and 98% of the time compromises are due to social engineering or phishing.

[@Spurs2k23]

​@@noneshereoh and "not able to crack a L 2/3 switch"....you're joking right?

[@creativechef25]

From what I'm getting from the expert is that we shouldn't rely so much on digital tech so much, have a balance of digital and "old school" methods. If one gets broken into, the other can't be.

[@HanTheProphet]

No the takeaway is that many systems should be air gapped or otherwise not connected to the wider internet

[@STCloud-xg6zc]

this is why everything being digital instead of physical will lead to crazy problems in the future.

[@angellynn7701]

Could our politicians stop acting like children for a bit and fix this cra& - we are all sick of spam texts, data breaches etc. It pisses me off that they care more about whether Don jr or Hunter are bigger drug addicts, when the rest of us are dealing with this mess.

[@rocknthesombrero1651]

What do you expect politicians to do about cyber attacks on private businesses?

[@LibbyRal]

Raise your hand if you think it won't be long before some hackers are at the bottom of the ocean wearing cement boots.

[@49erLA]

Why is there entire System on the open web? Why don't they have most of there sht on private, closed servers with no Internet access??

[@rafaeldiaz603]

The casinos paid the ransom with insurance money so they really didn’t pay the ransom…the insurance company did 😂

[@jcman240]

I smell a class action lawsuit where everyone gets $10 and the lawyers get $50M

[@AllenHanPR]

All the smaller casinos are definitely getting a lot of business these past week. Because MGM and Caesar's own 90% of Vegas casinos, so all of them share the same security protocols. Everyone probably went to places that is not owned by MGM and Caesar's.

[@Grazie76gw]

Thank you for airing this information really helpful 😊

[@JRussellDay]

One of the strongest defenses against hacker groups is international treaties

[@lindenhoch8396]

What I want to know is why a casino can't afford a single day of downtime.

[@Tom-it6gi]

I would have turned a blind eye to this extortion of casinos, except for the fact that the hackers stole personal details about regular people. Would have been a tremendous heist, if not for that, and locking people out of their rooms.

[@breakfast00club..11]

Who cares

[@nahwork8013]

Wars always have innocent casualties so this ain’t bad

[@SamuraiG]

Good examle why we need to stop computerizing everything

[@brandonwoods9930]

This is why we always need a offline mode as a back up

[@Knawvids]

In another comment I've heard of manual switches to beat a system wide hack. Offline mode is great idea too. Myself, I think it's the creators of the data bases, servers, computers, and all the electronic parts that know the back doors. Like they get everyone set up on the same systems, then strike.

[@Nikkithedog-t6b]

There literally was a hackers convention in Vegas a few weeks ago.

[@mr.willywinker4u849]

Wait! The casinos are calling the hackers criminals 😂😂 that's like the pot calling the kettle black 😂

[@ericsynchrona5495]

Followup Question: How many politicians had their cards stuck in a casino machine? Because we have a problem like that right here in Connecticut.

[@naomidga]

This is scary. Utter chaos.

[@funnyfarm5555]

Advice to all; Contact the three credit agencies and put a freeze on your credit. You can unlock it say if you need a report to buy a car and then re-lock it.

[@aardque]

"Password authentication" is the equivalent of walking around in public with a license plate on your face. It is how your employer, financial institutions, friends and family recognize you, except extremely rarely and for higher security when they mail you an envelope with a letter in it that they ask you to read out loud in their presence.

[@oc6617]

wut

[@MichaelInTheDesert]

People say they don’t care about the casinos losing money, but you’re forgetting about all the people who work there, that affects them too.

[@dgaf85renegade]

Oh no! A job that sucks? Can you imagine?

[@rabidgoon]

still don't care

[@OriginalPiMan]

Casinos are very profitable and they have business insurance.

[@DoctorTurdmidget]

Does it, though? How many people lost their jobs because of this?

[@Habib_Osman]

Nah it doesn't. Casinos make 10.000 times more than they pay out in salaries. Casinos are the nastiest of the nasty.

[@stonedcommander]

2 Friends, each of whom have high clearance at 2 different casinos, concocted this hacker story when in actuality it's a double inside job.

[@larrybarela8676]

Yes, it was Tom cruise and the mission impossible team!

[@JoePAcalaughs]

​@@larrybarela8676wrong. Twas Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and the rest of Danny Ocean's remaining other 9.

[@larrybarela8676]

@@JoePAcalaughs Now that may be a possibility, I could be wrong, don't quote me now!

[@Frank71]

The hackers should have made e every slot machine payout a jackpot.

[@dmac7128]

In this day and age, the use of passwords is the worst security measure. At the very minimum, 2 factor authentication should be the standard. Preferably, public key infrastructure implemented with pin and chip enabled smart cards or a smart phone as a backup should be used to log in to any system using credentials provided by a financial institution or a government agency.

[@AverageJoe483]

I’m curious if this came from a foreign country or the US .

[@larrybarela8676]

Mexico, their trying to get back at us!

[@AverageJoe483]

@@larrybarela8676 back at us ? What do you mean ?

[@larrybarela8676]

@@AverageJoe483 Because we don't them here!

[@invertedmirrorimageimi9480]

This is WARNING the world about the vulnerabilities of a digital currency

[@ORGANICsoulJAZZ]

Sounds like an Oceans sequel

[@merovingian688]

You must consider the economic environment of high interest rates and inflation. He said it could cost Caesars tens of millions of dollars to beef up the cybersecurity.

[@EliteGeeks]

most of their systems are intergraded and IMO if a weak point, I was just talking to my brother-in-law who was an I.T. guy for MGM for years about the interconnected systems, then a few days later this happened... it is a wake-up call

[@Look_What_You_Did]

Liar.

[@stefadelu]

Maybe he did it😮

[@beeble2003]

If your elevators and revolving doors are controlled by internet-connected computers, something is very, very wrong.

[@beeble2003]

@@AllergicToMakeBelieve If they're not ultimately connected to the internet, the hackers couldn't have reached them. (OK, that's not _quite_ true but, if they're not on the internet, the only way the hackers could have accessed them would be by getting somebody to transfer something like a USB stick from an internet-connected machine onto the air-gapped network.)

[@mybsite5697]

The fact that they did shows that the equipment "is" or can be rigged by the casino. But anyone foolish enough to dump hard earned into these machines should be barred from ever receiving financial assistance of any kind.The real story isn't the hacking nor hackers. But the machines themselves.

[@EpicAlcatraz99]

I thought machines cannot be hacked. That every night in Vegas is most secure night in Vegas history?

[@EpicAlcatraz99]

@only5genders03 i have millions of accounts

[@JoementiaCmonMan-p1n]

@only5genders03 I already have it.

[@EpicAlcatraz99]

I remember very vividly how machines cannot be hacked and that machines are the most safest things in the universe. Even voting machines.

[@EfficientRVer]

Who says they were hacked, and what makes you think they're right about that? The casino took them down for their own reasons, probably as part of a "starting from scratch" disaster recovery procedure.

[@user-gg7di3ti2y]

Can't decide which is worse. That the customers personal information was lost and the casino lost some production revenue or that those customers couldn't gamble their life away for a while? 😅

[@Habib_Osman]

Exactly. Criminals stealing from criminals stealing from criminals. Nothing to see here.

[@chips1a]

Maybe, just maybe, our companies and government will see this and decide that NOT EVERYTHING needs to be online or computer controlled. We used to do everything without computers and got by quite fine.

[@dariuskool1998]

This has Daniel Ocean written all over it...

[@James-tq8go]

Awesome!

[@executetrumpfortreason1400]

Either there was inside help, or the IT department is extremely incompetent!

[@FPVREVIEWS]

that is hilarious that a casino can lose money like that.

[@freesparks1931]

It really is, gross negligence, where's the IT staff? Ohh wait, im sure the BOARD doesn't even know what penetration testing is.

[@Trippy_Hippy89]

Casinos are like "They robbed us for the money we robbed you for". LOL Get wrecked Casinos.

[@168tsai8]

2-factor authentication is a must and very basic for network security. MGM does not have it?

[@princegroove]

Life in the digital age. 😂

[@larrybarela8676]

I miss the rotary phone!

[@johnclerk1195]

Sounds like it could be a new movie script for Oceans 13 (or 14 or 15, or whatever # that Ocean's series is at)

[@jacobsaucedo2316]

Someone tell Lester to cool it down wit his hiest 😂😂😂

[@davef5277]

And casinos say we don’t control slots…..BS.

[@sjssjssjs]

I work at mgm and Caesar’s properties and I cannot believe people are still putting money into the machines that are working. I’m wondering why they didn’t hack to make the machines pay out lol but it really seems like the few working are just sucking money away, more so than usual. It’s petty wild what’s going on. I can tell you that mgm and Caesars do cater to a certain group of people, high rollers and no I’m not talking about celebrities. Information that certain governments might want access to, pretty sure mgm has in their rewards system. Feels like we’re under siege, I’m guessing this election is going to be reaaaal fun.

[@flyhigh7918]

I work at a casino... So I would watch what you're saying on here.. especially if you don't want to lose your job lol.. just giving you some advice

[@kateskeys]

Is 30 mil going to hurt Caesars?

[@tangqunkung9590]

Casino members must be involved in this incident.

[@barrylee3604]

Hack if found to be sponsored by or run by enemy's should be an act of war

[@ClassicalMusicMan]

How does this even happen… like Lordy loo

[@thomasholt63]

North Korea leader kim and Russia 🇷🇺 leader putin meeting for a couple of days and don't forget about Xi China 🇨🇳 leader and Iran 🇮🇷 also

[@iCANT_BELIEVE_YOU_SAID_THAT]

I didn't even know slot machine were connected to the web. What can go wrong?

[@larrybarela8676]

Oh, just a little mishap! nothing to worry about.

[@Look_What_You_Did]

There is far more you don't know than you do know.

[@kayakchrispy]

Cashless society seems smart All your money … just disappears

[@jamesfrankel7827]

Physical objects like the ubikey which has cryptographic hardware within the usb device. 3 factors for use, company computer, on the corporate network, and last a ubikey plugging into the physical computer in your possession.