Hospitality and leisure big MGM Resorts on Monday mentioned a “cybersecurity subject” pressured the shutdown of sure pc techniques, together with the web sites for among the largest Las Vegas and New York properties.
A short be aware posted to X (the web site previously generally known as Twitter) mentioned exterior cybersecurity consultants and legislation enforcement are concerned in an investigation that has all of the hallmarks of a ransomware extortion assault.
Right here’s the complete MGM Resorts assertion:
“MGM Resorts just lately recognized a cybersecurity subject affecting among the Firm’s techniques. Promptly after detecting the difficulty, we shortly started an investigation with help from main exterior cybersecurity consultants. We additionally notified legislation enforcement and took immediate motion to guard our techniques and information, together with shutting down sure techniques.
Our investigation is ongoing, and we’re working diligently to find out the character and scope of the matter.”
MGM Resorts properties embrace the Mandalay Bay (the positioning of the Black Hat security convention), Bellagio, MGM Grand, Aria, Luxor and the Cosmopolitan.
The incident started someday on Sunday and affected lodge reservation techniques all through america and different IT techniques that run the on line casino flooring.
At 1:00PM PST Monday, companies on the corporate’s homepage remained unavailable.
