Officials at Las Vegas Sands Corp. say their core operating systems were not compromised this week during what has been called a “sophisticated cyber attack.”
Nonetheless, as of Wednesday evening, a number of the casino operator’s websites were still down more than a full day after the attack commences.
In a statement, Las Vegas Sands spokesman Ron Reese said the company’s internal information technology team, outside consultants and experts made progress toward restoring the company websites and U.S. internal systems.
“The company remains focused on working through a step-by-step process to ascertain what, if any, additional systems may have impacted,” Reese said in a statement provided to the Las Vegas Review Journal. “The company continues to assist local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies in the investigation into the hacking activity.”
The same report notes that the hack job not only targeted and took down websites, but also disrupted the Las Vegas Sands’ domestic email capabilities.
The FBI is now investigating the matter.
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