MGM was hit by a cyberattack Monday that pushed the company to shut down network systems. This lead to digital rooms keys not to work, slot machines to be out of order, and ATMs inoperable.
Websites for the MGM resorts were also taken offline and continue to be disrupted this morning.
As the attack is being investigated, ALPHV ransomware group is taking credit claiming they simply used a social engineering attack to gain access.
ALPHV ransomware group claims they went to LinkedIn, found an employee, called the help desk and "defeated a $33,900,000,00 company by a 10-minute conversation"
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