(Bloomberg) -- Caesars Entertainment Inc. paid tens of millions of dollars to hackers who broke into the company's systems in recent weeks and threatened to release the company's data, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The disclosure of the alleged Caesars breach comes as another Las Vegas entertainment giant, MGM Resorts International, announced that it was hacked earlier this week.
Casino hackers demanded ransoms from MGM and Caesar's
A bunch of hackers aged between 19 and 22 are bringing the Las Vegas Strip's casino-hotels to their knees.
"Although members of the group may be less experienced and younger than many of the established multifaceted extortion/ransomware groups and nation state espionage actors, they are a serious threat to large organizations in the United States.
Blockchain analysts suspect North Korea-linked hackers behind $70 million crypto theft | Reuters
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CoinEx, which says it is based in Hong Kong, said on Tuesday on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that wallets used to store the exchange's crypto assets had been hacked.
Blockchain research firm Elliptic said that "a number of factors" indicate that the Lazarus Group - a hacker group associated with North Korea - was responsible for the attack.
North Korean Hackers Steal $53 Million in Cryptocurrency From CoinEx - SecurityWeek
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