Wynn Resorts: Where the House Always Loses (Your Fucking Data)
Oh for fuck’s sake. Just when I thought my give-a-shit meter couldn’t bottom out any further, Wynn Resorts comes along and proves that no matter how much money you throw at fountains and fake volcanoes, you still can’t hire a security team that knows their arse from a hole in the firewall.
Yes, boys and girls, the luxury casino wankers have confirmed that back in October 2024—because apparently sitting on bad news for months is a competitive sport in the hospitality industry—some digital extortionist managed to waltz into their systems and help themselves to employee data. Current and former staff, meaning some poor sod who handed in their notice three years ago is now getting breach notifications because these idiots keep data forever but secure it never.
And here’s the beautiful part: the attackers didn’t just steal the data, oh no. They’re playing the extortion game. “Nice personnel records you have there, shame if something happened to them.” So now Wynn gets to choose between paying the ransom (thereby funding more attacks) or letting their employees’ personal details become wallpaper on 4chan. Either way, it’s the staff getting shafted while the C-suite dickheads who couldn’t secure a potato let alone a database will still get their bonuses.
The company’s issued the standard corporate fart-noise about “taking security seriously” and offering credit monitoring. Credit monitoring! As if that’s going to help when some Bulgarian teenager is using Employee #4472’s identity to buy graphics cards. Maybe instead of building another fucking fountain that shoots water into the air, you could invest in MFA and proper network segmentation, you clueless bunch of amateurs.
Related Anecdote: I once had a department head who insisted on sharing passwords via email. I set up a script that automatically forwarded their emails to the entire company directory whenever they used the word “password.” They called it a “malicious hack.” I called it “vocational training.” The industrial tribunal called it “grounds for dismissal.” Tomato, tomahto.
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