CDNet.com<\/a> has confirmed “exclusively” what we shared back in February 2020: The official number of customer records breached was vastly inaccurate, and not in a good way.<\/p>\nWhile CDNet’s story says 142 million records are for sale on the dark Web, our source puts the number of stolen records closer to 200 million.<\/p>\nDear hackers, please leave Las Vegas alone. We have enough problems.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nCDNet’s story included, “Posts on Russian-speaking hacking forums promoted the MGM data breach as containing details on more than 200 million hotel guests.”<\/p>\n
On the bright side, if there is one, the breached records had limited MGM Resorts customer data: Names, addresses, phone numbers and, in limited cases, dates of birth and drivers license numbers.<\/p>\n
No financial data was leaked.<\/p>\n
Our source provided lots of information which hasn’t been reported elsewhere or confirmed by MGM Resorts.<\/p>\n
The source says the stolen data in question had no information beyond 2017.<\/p>\n
The source also claims the hackers had ties to Iran.<\/p>\n
There were also some technical aspects of the breach which we have no clue about: The data was compromised via “SQL tables” posted “in the Cloud” within AWS (Amazon Web Services). Basically, “production data” stored in a development environment.<\/p>\n
Both the MGM Resorts player database (PATRON) and hotel database (OPERA) were compromised, according to our source.<\/p>\n
Our source says MGM Resorts paid “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to attempt to buy back the data, but it was leaked, anyway.<\/p>\n
Astonishingly, the hacker trying to sell the stolen data is offering it for a paltry $2,939.<\/p>\n
MGM Resorts claims it “has already addressed the situation.”<\/p>\n
That sounds like an apology to us, so it’s all good!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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