- MGM Resorts suffered a cyberattack that affected its reservation system and casino games.
- Guests trying to check in at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas had to do so manually.
In a particularly bad bout of bad luck for MGM Resorts, Lina Khan, the chair of the Federal Trade Commission, was among those patrons affected by the recent cyberattack on the Las Vegas hotel, Bloomberg reported.
Along with about 45 other guests, Khan and her staff had to write their credit card information on a piece of paper when checking into the hotel on Tuesday due to a shutdown of the reservation system, according to Bloomberg.
An aide present for Khan's interaction with a front desk employee said the FTC chair asked what MGM Resorts was doing to protect consumer data, and the desk agent shrugged, per Bloomberg.
Last Sunday, hackers breached MGM's internal networks. Some of the company's websites were down and slot machines were dark as recently as Thursday night.
As of Friday, MGM's site appeared to be running regularly.
The attack has been attributed to the hacking group Scattered Spider, according to an earlier report from Bloomberg.
The same group was also said to be responsible for a cyberattack on Caesars Entertainment just weeks ago; the company reportedly paid a $15 million ransom to the group.
The FTC didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, but a spokesperson for the agency confirmed to Bloomberg that Khan was in Las Vegas. The spokesperson declined to say if the FTC would be looking into MGM's handling of data.
"MGM Resorts recently identified a cybersecurity issue affecting some of the Company's systems," a statement on MGM Resorts International's website reads. "Promptly after detecting the issue, we quickly began an investigation with assistance from leading external cybersecurity experts. We also notified law enforcement and took prompt action to protect our systems and data, including shutting down certain systems."