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Caesars Entertainment confirms ransom payment, customer data theft (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Caesars' 8-K also implies that a ransom demanded by the attackers was paid to prevent the leak of the stolen data online—a Wall Street Journal report says the hotel and casino entertainment company paid roughly $15 million, half of the attackers' initial $30 million demand.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Love to see the robbers get robbed! Happy news :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean? They got half what they wanted, and any number above 0 is profit for them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they meant casinos being the robbers too

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm dumb, thanks for the clarification.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

No worries, take care