MGM has confirmed that a data breach occurred and customers that transacted with them prior to 2019 may have had the following data stolen:
- name
- contact information
- gender, date of birth
- driver’s license number
- social security numbers
- passport numbers
They state that passport and social security numbers were stolen from a smaller subset of customers but given that don’t state the total size of the breach and the SSN/passports numbers stolen this is impossible to verify. The whole statement from MGM reads poorly stating that it was their swift response that resulted in more data not being stolen when likely this was because that data was encrypted/better protected.
Until the penalties for data breaches are increased they will continue to happen at an alarming rate. In fact MGM resorts last suffered a data breach in 2019 (reported in 2020) where 10.4 million customers were impacted.
Given the pace of data breaches happening these days, the govt should just start a program to renew everyone’s social security numbers every year. Much easier to handle.
“Protecting your personal information is a responsibility we take extremely seriously.”
same old song and dance
easy enough to change ones gender. hackers defeated
here’s hoping they give out Noir status instead of $10
They aren’t even giving out $10 😂
Upvote if sky is blue.
So… We might receive around $2.67 in compensation from a class action lawsuit in 2033.
I was thinking a free buffet pass!
That’s too generous.
Seems worse to not have paid off the hackers if it meant that all their customers’ data is now being exploited.
Why upgrade encryption and data security when it’s cheaper to just pay the fines and send affected consumers a free membership to a shitty credit monitoring service? T-Mobile’s been playing it this way for years.
so. what.
I wonder if their sportsbook was affected, or if the operator (William Hill) kept SSNs separate from MGM.