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Caesars reportedly paid millions to stop hackers releasing its data | It's the second Las Vegas casino group to be attacked this week. (www.engadget.com)
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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.

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[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If hackers are gonna extort, I definitely prefer it's the casinos they're extorting

[–] riesendulli@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

You misspelled the mob.

Movie recommendation:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101516/

[–] GewoehnlicherHamster@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if this is a good decision - you have to be very afraid of the publication of this data to pay millions to blackmailers without being sure that they won't be at your door again soon.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

It also makes you wonder WHO the hackers are.

Are they a national group? A competitor? Another casino?

Or

A foreign government or a foreign entity ... which begs the question ... if it came to light that it was a hostile government ... would it be classified as an act of provocation or even war?