Las Vegas hotel and casino giant Wynn Resorts appears to be the latest victim of data-grabbing and extortion gang ShinyHunters. On Friday, the cybercrime crew listed the hospitality company on its blog, claiming to have stolen more than 800,000 records containing employees’ Social Security numbers and other private details.
The extortionists set a February 23 deadline for Wynn to “reach out” and threatened to leak the data, “along with several annoying (digital) problems that’ll come your way,” if the resort chain did not comply with the demands.
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Source: The Register News
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