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.

    • dodslaser@feddit.nu
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      1 year ago

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

    • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
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      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