LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A teenage suspect within the 2023 cyberattacks on MGM and Caesars, the largest resort operators in Las Vegas, surrendered to authorities on Wednesday, in keeping with Metro police.
The juvenile’s identify was not launched by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division.
4 males between the ages of 20 and 23 have been recognized in November 2024 when federal prosecutors introduced indictments within the case, which hadn’t formally been linked on the time to the cyberattacks on MGM Resorts Worldwide and Caesars Leisure.
Metro’s information launch did not specify the connection, both. As a substitute, it cited “multiple Las Vegas casino properties” attacked between August 2023 and October 2023.
When the 4 indictments have been launched, web sites that monitor cybersecurity information recognized Scattered Spider, a loosely linked group of hackers, because the accountable group. Metro additionally recognized Scattered Spider within the costs towards the male teenager. He faces:
Three counts of acquiring and utilizing private figuring out data of one other particular person to hurt or impersonate particular person
One depend of extortion
One depend of conspiracy to commit extortion
One depend of illegal acts concerning computer systems
Metro stated the Clark County District Lawyer’s Workplace is searching for to cost {the teenager} as an grownup.
The investigation was dealt with by the FBI’s Las Vegas Cyber Activity Power, which incorporates two Metro officers.
In addition to the Scattered Spider identify, the “organized threat-actor group” has additionally used the names Octo Tempes, UNC3944, and/or 0ktapus, Metro stated.
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A hacker generally known as AlphV, or Alpha, took duty for the MGM hack, however didn’t deny that Scattered Spider carried it out, in keeping with a report by 8 Information Now Investigators.
