Caesars ended up paying tens of million of dollars to the hackers, according to sources, who asked not to be identified because the information is private.
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    MGM Resorts International was hacked by the same group of attackers that breached Caesars Entertainment weeks earlier, according to four people familiar with the matter.

    Caesars didn’t respond to messages seeking comment, but the company is expected to disclose the cyberattack imminently in a regulatory filing.

    MGM was still working to resolve the turmoil caused by the hackers, known as Scattered Spider, four days into the cyberattack that has disrupted the company’s websites, reservation system and some slot machines at its casinos across the country, according to two of the people.

    Caesars was also hacked by the same group in a cyberattack a few weeks earlier, and ended up paying tens of million of dollars to the hackers, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private.

    Scattered Spider, which is also known as UNC3944, is composed of hackers who are based in the US and UK, some as young as 19 years old, according to a cybersecurity researcher familiar with the group.

    The group has targeted telecommunications and business process outsourcing companies to pull off SIM swaps of phone numbers that can then be used in phishing attacks to steal data from victim systems and extort a ransom.

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