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Caesars reportedly paid millions to stop hackers releasing its data | It's the second Las Vegas casino group to be attacked this week. (www.engadget.com)
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Caesars reportedly paid millions to stop hackers releasing its data | It's the second Las Vegas casino group to be attacked this week.::Caesars Entertainment reportedly paid "tens of millions of dollars" to hackers who threatened to release company data.

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[–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

User being phished doesn't leak the company's database though.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    It does if that user has rights to access those databases, that would be a non-zero number of marketing analysis, p&a, data scientists, IT staff who maintain that infrastructure, etc. The most dangerous one is a compromised IT admin account and from the looks of it that happened to MGM this week

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