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Caesars Entertainment confirms ransom payment, customer data theft (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 1 year ago by 123@lemm.ee to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world
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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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[–] Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago

They won't pay their fucking employees/ union. Fuck Caesars.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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.

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they meant casinos being the robbers too

[–] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm dumb, thanks for the clarification.

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

No worries, take care

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I thought that paying any ransomware ransom was illegal.