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MGM is down, cybersecurity attack ongoing
- codex_irl 3y agoRelated discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/vegas/comments/16fz1d3/mgm_has_been_hacked/ https://www.reddit.com/r/vegas/comments/16fz1d3/mgm_has_been...
- bsimpson 3y agoTitle should be "MGM Resorts Suffers Cybersecurity Attack, System Outage" (following HN norms), or at least include "Resorts." MGM Resorts was spun out of the movie studio in like the 70s.
- sschueller 3y agoAgreed, I thought it had something to do with the on going actors and writers guilds strike.
- dylan604 3y agoI thought maybe it was hacking to get content. So at least the title instilled a bit of curiosity even if it wasn't the story I had imagined from just the headline
- basch 3y agoMGM is basically a defunct rights holding company. It’s made 5 movies in the last decade, including 2 Addams Family, 2 Max (dog movies), and a GI Joe, and the Addams Family movies were really Made by Universal. It’s also a name slapped on some other streaming app. If I heard the name referring to a current company, I would think hotels/casinos/sportsbooks first. That said, the title could still be better.
- daniel-cussen 3y ago[dead]
- bettercallsalad 3y agoDid not Amazon at some point buy or thought about buying up some of their business?
- BryantD 3y agoYep. Amazon bought MGM Holdings in March, 2022. The studio is the only meaningful portion of that. They’re no longer considered a major U.S. studio but they release 8-10 films a year.
- babyshake 3y agoYes, because I remember thinking that we would eventually be getting a bloated James Bond extended universe of shows (like Star Wars and Marvel) because of it.
- aquova 3y agoI don't really know where you're getting this number. By my count they've made about three dozen films this decade, including a James Bond film and Creed III.
- basch 3y agoYoure right that my list is wrong. Downside to HN not having editing and deleting, is I cant retract my misinformation. And I earned 7 votes for that nonsense. :/
- downrightmike 3y agoFurther proof: They have StarGate and aren't doing jack with that at all.
- RC_ITR 3y agoAmazon literally just bought them for $8bn https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/amazon-mgm-merger-close-1235207852/ https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/amazon-mgm-merger-close-123...
- karaterobot 3y agoThe linked article is down, here's an archive https://web.archive.org/web/20230911174437/https://www.casino.org/news/mgm-resorts-suffers-cybersecurity-attack-system-outage-reported/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230911174437/https://www.casin... Though the article itself says details are scant, so it's just going to be speculation. I'd love to know what happened though.
- tunnuz 3y agoMakes me think of the Sony hack by the Lazarus Group.
- nosmokewhereiam 3y agoAllegedly due to the release of a movie. I'd assume this MGM resort is extortion/DOS. ...which doesn't eliminate them. Recent visits and timing would be impeccable. Every day they are down is $$$$$$
- tpmx 3y agoI'm currently rewatching the Las Vegas (2003) NBC TV series (the one with James Caan, Josh Duhamel, James Lesure, Molly Sims, Nikki Cox, Vanessa Marcil etc). Feels on-brand; like every second ep is about some fantastic heist. It's worth rewatching as a guilty pleasure, IMO. Feels quite alien compared to current fare. It's dumb but well-crafted, fun and glitzy and never takes itself too seriously. I miss that kind of show. Surprisingly high production values for the time. It's available in 1080p with decent quality, somehow.
- plasticsoprano 3y agoEd Deline would never allow such as thing. Mike would most certainly be on it.
- toast0 3y agoHDTV (ATSC) was available in 1998 in the US[1]; consumer uptake wasn't much until close to the shutdown of analog broadcasting, but it was out there. NBC broadcasts in 1080i, so it's not terribly surprising that they recorded it in a way that would look good on 1080p. I can't find anything saying exactly how it was recorded, but it wasn't uncommon to film in 1080p/24 and broadcast with 3:2 pulldown. That kind of content will look great as 1080p obviously; but if it was recorded at 1080i, a professional deinterlacing will look pretty good too. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140924040947/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-53190401.html https://web.archive.org/web/20140924040947/http://www.highbe...
- jdofaz 3y agoI think I started watching that show because it was in HD
- thakoppno 3y agoHDTV (ATSC) is a technology that has influenced my life in pretty serious ways. My first tuner was a Sony SAT-HD100[0] in 2001. Witnessing the transition into digital TV through my VGA port, in retrospect, taught me tons about how technology adoption, development, and standardization actually works in the real world. [0] https://www.crutchfield.com/S-9Pd3SuUnpX0/p_158STHD100/Sony-SAT-HD100.html https://www.crutchfield.com/S-9Pd3SuUnpX0/p_158STHD100/Sony-...
- abathur 3y agoTake w/ requisite salt, but per Daily Mail [1]: > Thousands of guests at MGM Resorts in the Las Vegas strip have been locked out of their hotel rooms after the company was hit with a cyber attack, according to reports. > MGM Resorts International has about 48,000 rooms on The Strip. The company's properties include Mandalay Bay, the Bellagio, Luxor and MGM Grand, among others. > The outage, first detected on Sunday night, has affected company emails, reservations, booking, room keys and casino slot machines. [1]: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12505921/MGM-Resorts-Las-Vegas-cyber-attack.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12505921/MGM-Resort...
- lainga 3y agoHow do those hotel door locks work? When I had an apartment with a tap keyfob, it was battery-operated and the fob seemed to be programmed for that specific lock, so I thought they could work offline.
- wombat-man 3y agoYours is probably meant to work indefinitely. I guess hotels look at the card id and see if you have access at that moment.
- _joel 3y agoApartment? I assume your home? The upkeep of locks in a hotel is a bit more involved, as customers lose keys and they need to be reset for the next room guest (for larger hotels, at least)
- glitchc 3y agoIn a modern hotel with tap cards, all the locks are wired to a central system.
- napoleongl 3y agoThese days the locks are online so that you can block a lost keycard from the front desk. Previously you had to open the lock with a never keycard than the lost one to make the lost one inoperable. That works kinda fine in a small hotel but not when you 48000 rooms with millionaires in them.
- netsharc 3y agoOcean's 0x11? I wonder if it's just an attack against their email servers or a bigger one, how networked are their operations? If we believe the urban legends about how casinos operate, there's probably interesting conversations a cyber-attacker could find.
- mixdup 3y agoalmost certainly just a random/typical ransomware attack, not a specific target at them because they're a casino
- mickdarling 3y agoI was disturbed to hear from people first hand in Vegas saying it was making the ATMs inoperable. No details on how inoperable, like if it is just certain banking features or everything. The ATMs should not be effected in the same kind of attack that would take down the website and booking systems. Those should all be separate.
- dboreham 3y agoPossibly the ATMs get network connectivity via a path that has either been affected by the attack directly or shut down as a precaution.
- wintogreen74 3y agoI don't believe these are typical bank ATMs but specific to MGM that manage all the casino games (ex: pay-outs, loyalty, etc) as well, so would be tied into any MGM systems.
- plasticsoprano 3y agoCasino floor ATMs aren't just ATMs. They are also ticket redemption machines and therefore have to connect to the MGM network to redeem. I'd imagine the whole machine shutdown for security reasons if network connection is lost.
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- RyanAdamas 3y agoDoes somebody have a magnetron?
- bigbillheck 3y agoIf they're going to shut something down, better a casino than anywhere else.
- allenrb 3y agoWas just coming here to say it: And nothing of value was lost.
- andy800 3y agoYour opinion is valid, however I'm currently on a plane heading there, likely a third of the passengers won't be able to check into their hotel. Same with dozens of planes. Kinda sucks for them.
- allenrb 3y agoThat will suck for sure. Hopefully they’ll be handing out some form of compensatory goodies to make up for it a bit.
- dylanz 3y agoI live in Vegas and it also sucks for all the local MGM employees that are getting called in to have to deal it. That said, I hope things get figured out and your trip goes well!
- andy800 3y agoI'll be fine, thanks. The context from allenrb is that casinos have no value to society, so that eliminating them (and therefore all the related jobs) is not a loss to anyone. That includes the employees you are referring to in your comment, and without much regard for the people heading there for a vacation.
- Animats 3y agoAlmost all news available is an echo of the press release. Not much real info.
- VFIT7CTO77TOC 3y agoReminds me of https://money.cnn.com/2015/02/27/technology/security/iran-hack-casino/index.html https://money.cnn.com/2015/02/27/technology/security/iran-ha...
- monksy 3y agoThis is the same group that brought in face recognition, and needlessly detailed data keeping on every customer and we're expected to trust them .. right?
- dafelst 3y agoI was at the Park MGM is Las Vegas yesterday and was unable to use the app or the automated checkout kiosks, though aside from the front desk being more busy than usual during checkin and checkout, nothing in particular seemed amiss.
- bahbahbahblah 3y ago[dead]
- hnburnsy 3y agoRumors that Ceasars was hit last week... https://www.casino.org/vitalvegas/mgm-resorts-receives-colossal-kick-to-the-nads-in-companywide-cyberattack/ https://www.casino.org/vitalvegas/mgm-resorts-receives-colos...
- nhggfu 3y agolots of igaming hacks of late. other notables: Australia's crown resorts was hacked a while back (March 2023) https://gamblingindustrynews.com/news/australia/crown-potential-data-breach/ https://gamblingindustrynews.com/news/australia/crown-potent... Last week stake.com was hacked https://gamblingindustrynews.com/news/technology/stake-com-41-million-hack/ https://gamblingindustrynews.com/news/technology/stake-com-4... (apparently by Lazarus group according to FBI https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-identifies-lazarus-group-cyber-actors-as-responsible-for-theft-of-41-million-from-stakecom https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-identifies-lazar... )
- photonthug 3y agoMaybe most of the LED displays are run by the same IT department. So if I were an evil genius, this latest attack would be only the first salvo of bewildering hijinks perpetrated in the service of a multistep heist. The ultimate goal: rickroll the entire city after hijacking The Sphere ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLCeYV0SV8k&ab_channel=BillionDollarBuilds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLCeYV0SV8k&ab_channel=Billi... )
- tilne 3y agoHow many people would you need for such an elaborate, multi-step heist? Especially wondering because, given your reputation, I’m assuming you would need a to be more of a puppet master than an active participant.