{"id":310310,"date":"2024-02-10T17:51:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T23:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=310310"},"modified":"2024-02-12T11:50:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T17:50:49","slug":"winstar-casino-app-was-spilling-customer-data-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/winstar-casino-app-was-spilling-customer-data-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"WinStar Casino App Was \u2018Spilling Customer Data\u2019: TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Nevada-based tech startup that developed the app for the WinStar World Casino and Resort<\/a> in Thackerville, Okla., was \u201cspilling customers\u2019 private information to the open web,\u201d according to a TechCrunch<\/em> report.<\/p>\n

\"WinStar
The WinStar World claims to be the biggest casino in the world. But the company it hired to build its \u201cMyWinStar\u201d app left an even bigger hole in one of its customer databases, according to TechCrunch. (Image: NBC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The company, Dexiga, built the MyWinStar app, which allows users to keep track of earned rewards points, promotions, and offers, as well as pay for gaming and WinStar amenities during their stay.<\/p>\n

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But Dexiga had failed to secure one of its logging databases with a password, according to the tech news portal. This meant anyone with knowledge of Dexiga\u2019s public IP address had access to WinStar customers\u2019 private information on the leaky database.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This included full names, phone numbers, email addresses, home addresses, the users\u2019 gender, and the IP address of the users\u2019 devices. None of the data was encrypted, although some sensitive information, such as dates of birth, were redacted with asterisks, according to TechCrunch<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The database has now been secured after TechCrunch<\/em> contacted Dexiga to raise a red flag.<\/p>\n

\u2018World\u2019s Biggest Casino\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n

WinStar, owned by the Chickasaw Nation, claims to be the largest casino in the world by square footage. Based close to the Texas border, it welcomes a multitude of visitors every year. It is not clear how many customers\u2019 personal information was exposed by the security lapse, or whether this information was accessed by any bad actors prior to discovery.<\/p>\n

The lapse was first noticed by Anurag Sen, a good-faith security researcher with a proven history of discovering exposed data. He contacted TechCrunch<\/em> with his concerns, and the tech portal was able to link the database to Dexiga.<\/p>\n

In email communication with TechCrunch, Dexiga founder Rajini Jayaseelan claimed that the database contained \u201cpublicly available information\u201d and denied his company had exposed sensitive data.<\/p>\n

Jayaseelan added that the incident had occurred during a log migration performed last month. He declined to say whether Dexiga is able to determine if anyone accessed the database while it was exposed.<\/p>\n

Jack Parkinson, WinStar World Casino and Resort president, said in a statement to Casino.org<\/em> that the company had only been notified of the situation on February 10.<\/p>\n

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Initial investigation shows this event effected a limited number of individuals and not the entire database of My WinStar App users. It has also been determined that the information accessed involved a single file and the app itself was not compromised,” <\/strong>he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“We continue to work with our vendor developer to investigate what happened and what steps can be taken in the future to mitigate this issue. The safety and security of our patrons and their information is of highest priority for us, and we will notify those affected patrons as soon as we have more information,” Parkinson added.<\/p>\n

Casino Security in Hard Focus \u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The methods casinos use to protect sensitive customer data and repel hackers have come into hard focus in recent years after numerous security beaches.<\/a><\/p>\n

In September, the so-called \u201cScattered Spider\u201d hacking group orchestrated devastating ransomware attack<\/a>s on MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment.<\/p>\n

After refusing to pay the ransom, MGM experienced disruption to its operations that\u00a0lasted for days<\/a>\u00a0and caused an estimated $100 million in damage. Caesars paid the hackers around $15 million to have normal services restored, according to\u00a0The Wall Street Journal.<\/em><\/p>\n

Casinos are attractive targets for cybercriminals. That’s because of the huge amount of data accrued through loyalty programs and the credit card-intensive nature of hotel booking.<\/p>\n

WinStar World had failed to reply to a request for comment from Casino.org <\/em>at the time of publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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