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Hotel and casino giant MGM Resorts has agreed to pay $ 45 million to square off more than a dozen class activity case after hack stole personal data on millions of customers in two freestanding cyberattacks .
MGM agreed to the settlement on January 21 , accordingto a recent court filing , asfirst reportedby The Record . A Las Vegas Union court of law is schedule to rule on the settlement on June 18 .
The small town proposal was reached keep up two antecedently reported data point falling out at MGM Resorts in 2019 and 2023 .
The breach in 2019 saw hacker slip millions of customer names , home addresses , earphone identification number , and other personal information from MGM ’s systems . MGM affirm the breach in 2020 after large portions of the stolen data werepublished on a known cybercrime forum .
The 2023 ransomware attack on MGM ’s systems lead in weeks - long outage and disruption across the company ’s property across the Las Vegas Strip , include the Bellagio , Aria , and Cosmopolitan . Thehackers also stole client ’ personal information , include some Social Security numbers and pass numeral . MGM say the ransomware flak be the company more than $ 100 million in damages .
Lawyers for the class action mechanism members say in the filing that the two freestanding information breaches both bear upon more than 37 million MGM Resorts customers . MGM has repeatedly declined to share the number of affected individuals , and MGM representative Brian Ahern did not respond to TechCrunch ’s petition for comment .
About 30 % of the $ 45 million settlement fund will go to attorney fee , with class military action victim receive up to $ 75 each reckon on the types of info stolen in the flak .
