#PacificWatch: Ransomware & What is to be done? Las Vegas
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 16 September 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366552124/Las-Vegas-mainstay-Ceasars-Palace-likely-paid-off-ransomware-crew
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| 0:19.9 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:24.5 | This is CBS Eye on the World. I'm John Bachelor. Last Vegas. Jeff Bliss returned from Las Vegas with a |
| 0:32.6 | report on ransomware, hacking, and a very grim weekend without the major electronics in significant |
| 0:41.8 | hotels. I do not know Las Vegas. Jeff does. Jeff, the news says that MGM is the center of the trouble. |
| 0:50.0 | What's happened? What do we know so far? Is it okay for people to follow through on their |
| 0:56.1 | reservations in Las Vegas? Is the town open for business? Good evening, too. |
| 1:01.1 | Good evening, John. The first answer is yes. Vegas is open for business. I know people who are |
| 1:05.6 | there right now who are not staying at the affected properties, they're elsewhere, and they're |
| 1:09.7 | having a usual great time that people always expect are going to have when they're in Vegas. |
| 1:13.4 | But if you're at some of the MGM properties, the MGM itself, the ARIA, the Bellagio, which are all |
| 1:19.4 | very, very nice properties, you're probably coming up with a lot of delays. The photos and the |
| 1:25.8 | videos that are coming from the check-in areas, the lobbies, are just crazy. If you go into the |
| 1:30.4 | casinos, many electronic gambling machines, slot machines, and such are also affected by this. |
| 1:36.2 | There was a hack that happened, I believe, over the weekend, and it impacted MGM, |
| 1:42.6 | caused people to be locked out of their rooms. People would be locked in their rooms. |
| 1:46.8 | And of course, your check-in system depends on computers these days. From check-in to check-out, |
| 1:52.9 | and all the charges and everything in between. So you can imagine if you are not able to access |
| 1:57.8 | that, that's a major problem. But an even bigger problem for them is not just the fact that people |
| 2:02.4 | are being driven away or staying away, but that their gambling machines are down. And we're talking |
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