Hard Rock Hotel & Casino suffers data breach

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http://www.csoonline.com/article/2917674/data-breach/hard-rock-hotel-and-casino-suffers-data-breach.html

By Dave Lewis
Brick of Enlightenment
CSO
April 30, 2015

This week I was at the Interop conference being held at the Mandalay Bay 
Resort in Las Vegas. I was amazed at the spectacle that was surrounding 
the Mayweather vs Paquiao fight this coming weekend. Tickets were 
reportedly going for about $86,000 for ringside. Highway robbery was my 
initial thought.

It seems that this was nothing in comparison to a criminal issue that the 
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino was dealing with just down the road. News came 
out on Thursday that they had suffered a data breach courtesy of a 
criminal element. The casino made it known that their payment systems in 
their restaurant, bar and some retail locations had been compromised.

This sounds like a tune we’ve heard before. It sounds awfully similar to 
the data breaches that we have seen that affected the point of sale 
systems at Home Depot, Target and so forth. This time it seems that the 
data breach began on September 3rd, 2014 until it was discovered April 
2nd, 2015. Seven months of transactions. Ouch.

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