Report: Iranian Hackers Attacked Adelson's CasinosFebruary Cyber Attack Could Cost Las Vegas Sands $40 Million |
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Early this year, billionaire Las Vegas casino owner Sheldon Adelson saw his company fall victim to a cyber attack. Months later, there is evidence that it came from Iran, Bloomberg Businessweek reported on Thursday.
Adelson has a net worth of $27.4 billion and is the 22nd-wealthiest person in the world. His is a mega-donor for the Republican party and even opposes online gambling, including I-poker.
His extreme wealth makes the damage done by the cyber attack seem small, but it’s dollar value is staggering, according to the report. It took nearly a week before Las Vegas Sands Corp., the largest casino operator in the world based on revenue, restored its websites after the cyber attack.
Documents and interviews with people involved in Yellowstone 1 show that the hackers’ malicious payload wiped out about three-quarters of the company’s Las Vegas computer servers. Leven, in a brief interview last month before a private event, estimated that recovering data and building new systems could cost the company $40 million or more.
The hackers, who shut down company computers and servers, weren’t after money.
This was personal. The perpetrators wanted to punish the company, or, more precisely, its chief executive officer and majority owner, the billionaire Sheldon Adelson. Although confirming their conjectures would take some time, executives suspected almost immediately the assault was coming from Iran.
Adelson in 2013 said publicly that the United States should nuke unoccupied land in Iran over the latter country’s nuclear weapons pursuits.
According to the report, $3.3 million was spent last year protecting just Adelson and his family. That is on top of all the money spent to protect his businesses.
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