Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands says 665,000 prospects had information stolen throughout cyberattack

A cyberattack final month towards the Marina Bay Sands on line casino and lodge in Singapore led to the theft of knowledge from 665,000 prospects.

The large complicated is situated in Singapore’s Marina Bay waterfront and hosts a 2,200-room lodge alongside one of many largest casinos in Asia.

In a discover on Tuesday, the corporate stated it turned conscious of a knowledge safety incident on October 20 after hackers broke into their programs the day earlier than. The hackers gained entry to buyer loyalty program membership information.

“Upon discovery of the incident, our groups instantly took motion to resolve it,” they stated.

“Based mostly on our investigation, we do not need proof to this point that the unauthorized third celebration has misused the info to trigger hurt to prospects. We don’t consider that membership information from our on line casino rewards programme, Sands Rewards Membership, was affected.”

The corporate is working with a cybersecurity agency to deal with the problem and stated the info stolen contains names, electronic mail addresses, telephone numbers, nation of residence, membership numbers and extra.

Prospects affected by the breach will probably be contacted by the corporate. The incident has been reported to authorities in Singapore and different nations.

The assault on Marina Bay Sands follows ransomware assaults on Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts and Caesars Leisure — two of the biggest lodge and on line casino firms on the planet.

Final month, MGM Resorts stated the ransomware assault will value them about $100 million because of the injury performed to lodge programs in addition to buyer information stolen.

Semperis principal technologist Sean Deuby, who works with hospitality firms on cybersecurity, stated assaults on Marina Bay Sands, MGM and Caesars have “left your entire lodge and on line casino business on edge.”

“The silver lining on this most up-to-date breach is that hackers don’t seem to have walked away with the crown jewels of personally identifiable data resembling social safety numbers and bank card information,” he stated.

“Nonetheless, by stealing different private details about Marina Bay Sands’ loyal prospects resembling electronic mail addresses, and cell phone numbers, there’s a excessive likelihood that the attackers might conduct different social engineering-based assaults and phishing scams within the weeks forward or promote the info to the very best bidders on the darkish net.”