MGM Resorts falls victim to data breach | PhocusWire - 1 views
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MGM Resorts International is the latest travel brand to suffer a security attack involving customer details, in an incident that took place last summer.
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Details of the incident were uncovered last week by ZDNet, which says the personal details of more than 10 million customers were shared on a hacking forum.
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a dark web monitoring specialist, says this kind of incident can be avoided by regularly checking who has access to cloud-based servers:
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“This incident also highlights the importance of speed when mitigating digital risk; watermarking data with unique synthetic identities can enable organizations to detect these threats immediately and be the first to find out if their data is available online, before someone else does. Setting up email listeners for these watermark identities can detect a breach before the data is shared online, if the hacker is testing for valid addresses.”
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advises that the same security levels for data on premise need to be in place for what is stored in the cloud.
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It’s a near-universal challenge for enterprises: the move to hybrid environments and more complex, fragmented networks makes it even harder to keep control. Without consistent policies you can pretty soon have a tangle of security gaps and compliance violation
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MGM Resorts falls victim to data breach last summer, more than 10 million customers' information were leaked out. It was took place through "unauthorized access to a cloud server." However, specialist said this breach can be avoided by regularly checking and monitoring. Also, specialist advised that MGM also need to take same security levels for data on premise in their could.
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It was reported that MGM Resorts fell victim to a data breach on a cloud server but not much critical guest information was leaked out. Experts said that this kind of breach can be avoided by checking who was able to access the server regularly. Also, the company needs to monitor data to find out the leakage earlier than anyone else. Monitoring the data stored on the cloud should also be as important as those stored on-site.
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the article gives details about a data security breach that the company was a victim of and how information of 10 million customers were shared .