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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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[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] dodslaser@feddit.nu 3 points 1 year ago

I think "user" in this case means "employee". Phishing is by far the most common point of entry.

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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