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More than 10 million customer data stolen from MGM Resorts

More than 10 million customer data stolen from MGM Resorts

More than 10 million customer data stolen from MGM Resorts On February 19, ZDNet reported that a hacker forum recently posted the details of 10.6 million guests at MGM Resorts. Personal data, including names, home addresses, phone numbers, emails and dates of birth, fell into the hands of hackers.wildcard casino login In total, they received data for 10,683,188 guests %s.wild card city.. According to MGM, the bulk is just the contact details of their guests. But more detailed information was received for about 1,300 guests, including passport numbers. They and 52,000 other guests were notified by the company last year of the incident. But more than 10.5 million others remained in the dark. Indeed, according to the laws of many American states, companies are not required to inform a person if information about him has been obtained by hackers. The article on ZDNet says that among the leaked information, not only ordinary guests, but also information about various celebrities, directors of those. companies, reporters, government officials and employees of some of the largest tech %s... companies. Among them are Twitter director Jack Dorsey, singer Justin Bieber, as well as employees of the US Department of Homeland Security and the US Transportation Security Administration. And some sources even say that there are FBI agents among them. On this topic, Bars are suing the governor of Nevada because of the ban on the work of ZDNet checked the accuracy of the published information. They contacted those whose data had been leaked, and they were confirmed that during the indicated period they stayed at the hotel. We received confirmation from businessmen who came to the country on business, from reporters who visited those. conferences, directors attending business meetings, and government officials traveling to Las Vegas offices. After verifying the accuracy of the data, ZDNet contacted MGM Resorts, who said the incident occurred last summer and that the guests' financial data had not been accessed %s... So, bank card numbers and passwords were not stolen. And the representatives are sure of this. According to Irina Nesterovski, from the cyber security company KELA, this data has been disseminated among a closed circle of hacker forums since at least July last year. And it is assumed that the hacker who published the data is related to the GnosticPlayers group. Below is a screenshot that KELA posted to support it.

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