{"id":953,"date":"2025-09-24T11:13:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/?p=953"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:53:00","slug":"boyd-gaming-suffers-cyberattack-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/boyd-gaming-suffers-cyberattack-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Boyd Gaming Suffers Cyberattack, Data Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Boyd Gaming confirms cyberattack with limited personal data stolen<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Casinos remain prime targets for hackers seeking sensitive data<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>MGM, Caesars, and Boyd highlight growing casino cybercrime threat<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Las Vegas-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/boyd-gaming-will-build-new-par-a-dice-casino-in-illinois\/\">Boyd Gaming Corp<\/a> is the latest casino operator to fall victim to a cyberattack. The company confirmed Tuesday that hackers had broken into its internal computer systems and stolen employee information, along with data tied to \u201ca limited number of other individuals.\u201d The attack didn&#8217;t impact its casino or hotel operations, the company added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_363463\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-363463\" data-style=\"width: 858px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-post-thumbnail-858xAUTO wp-image-363463 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Boyd Gaming, cyberattack, Las Vegas casinos, data breach, cybersecurity\" width=\"858\" height=\"506\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Fremont-858x506-1.jpg\"><figcaption>Boyd Gaming\u2019s Fremont Hotel &amp; Casino in downtown Las Vegas. The operator said its hotel and casino operations weren&#8217;t disrupted by a recent cyberattack. (Image: Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a Tuesday filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Boyd said it had notified all those who may have been affected by the data breach and would reach out to regulators and other governmental agencies as required.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u2018Swift Response\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cUpon detecting the incident, the Company promptly took steps to respond to the incident with the assistance of leading external cybersecurity experts and in cooperation with federal law enforcement authorities,\u201d Boyd said in the filing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"main-blockquote\">\n<p>The Company maintains a comprehensive cybersecurity insurance policy, which we expect will cover costs associated with incident response and forensic investigations, as well as business interruptions, legal actions and regulatory fines, if any, subject to policy limits and deductibles,\u201d Boyd added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The company said it believes the breach won&#8217;t have a \u201cmaterial adverse effect on [its] financial condition or results of operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boyd operates 11 casinos in the Las Vegas Valley, including three properties in downtown Las Vegas, and has nearly a dozen other gaming locations spread across 10 states.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>2023 Attacks<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The disclosure comes as Las Vegas casinos have increasingly found themselves in the crosshairs of cybercriminals.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2023, MGM Resorts International was hit by a sophisticated ransomware attack that disrupted slot machines, hotel check-ins, and reservations. The company estimated losses of about $100 million. Caesars Entertainment disclosed around the same time that it paid tens of millions of dollars to hackers to restore order and protect customer data.<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p>The attacks were believed to have been carried out by a loose connection of hackers known as \u201cScattered Spider.\u201d Last week, authorities in Las Vegas announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/teen-suspect-surrenders-in-2023-las-vegas-strip-cyberattack-case\/\">arrest of a teenager<\/a> accused of involvement in cyberattacks on casinos in 2023. Police described it as a \u201csophisticated cyber crime,\u201d though they didn&#8217;t name the specific targets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cybersecurity experts say casinos are attractive targets because they house large amounts of financial, identity, and transactional data, and the mix of gaming, hospitality, and customer loyalty programs provides multiple attack surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/boyd-gaming-suffers-cyberattack-data-breach\/\">Boyd Gaming Suffers Cyberattack, Data Breach<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\">Casino.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boyd Gaming confirms cyberattack with limited personal data stolen Casinos remain prime targets for hackers seeking sensitive data MGM, Caesars, and Boyd highlight growing casino cybercrime threat Las Vegas-based Boyd Gaming Corp is the latest casino operator to fall victim to a cyberattack. The company confirmed Tuesday that hackers had broken into its internal computer systems and stolen employee information, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}