Twitter user @dan90266 posted on Friday that \u201crandom plain clothed people with walkie-talkies\u201d who \u201csay nothing and do nothing\u201d were seated in chairs riding all the elevators at Aria. This is presumably because their emergency phone systems were still offline. (Twitter\/@dan90266)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSystems Slowly Return<\/h2>\n On Thursday, social media users were the first to report the good news that MGM\u2019s systems were starting to come back online. However, there were still lingering problems. These included being unable to use food, beverages, casino play credits, and fraudulent credit card charges.<\/p>\n
By Thursday night, Twitter user @PatRalston51 reported that Aria was \u201callowing people to play select games, but only with cash\u201d and that \u201cfloor games that can gather and share info are off limits still.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to YouTuber and Vegas news source Jacob Orth, as of 11 p.m. Thursday at Park MGM, most — but not all — of the slot machines were back online, though payouts were still manual, with wait times anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour.<\/strong><\/p>\nIn the hotels, check-ins and check-outs on Thursday were still conducted manually.<\/p>\nAnyone attempting to visit a Las Vegas MGM Resorts website received an error message like this one through Friday morning. (Image: MGM screenshot)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAs of Friday morning, many of the problems above began to be fixed. However, all property websites and apps remained offline, and no phones or TVs inside MGM hotel rooms were believed to be operational yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe continue to work diligently to resolve our cybersecurity issue while addressing individual guest needs promptly,\u201d<\/strong> MGM tweeted on Friday morning.<\/p>\nA slight silver lining to guests was that the parking gates at all properties were stuck in the open position, allowing free garage access to anyone who wanted it.<\/p>\n
A hacker group called ALPHV\/BlackCat claimed responsibility for the cyberattack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Monday, Sept. 11, MGM announced that reports of guests being inconvenienced by a cyberattack were greatly exaggerated. \u201cOur resorts, including dining, entertainment and gaming, are currently operational and continue to deliver the experiences for which MGM is known,\u201d the corporation tweeted. MGM was hit with a ransomware attack sometime on Sunday, Sept. 10. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":289698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,21,81886],"tags":[82466,87992,83996,87847,87991,82713],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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