About a week after hacking
Las Vegas Sands websites fully restored
2014-02-18
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(US).- Las Vegas Sands, owners of the Venetian and Palazzo on the Strip, has restored its websites about a week after they were apparently taken over by hackers. The Las Vegas-based gaming company pulled down the sites, including Internet portals to the company’s Strip resorts, on February 13. Visitors to the websites were told that the sites were undergoing maintenance.
Ron Reese, a Las Vegas Sands spokesman, said the sites were restored early Monday. The company first became aware of the hacking on February 12 when the company email went down.
Reese declined comment on whether the company’s U.S. internal systems were also operating again. The Nevada Gaming Control Board and FBI are investigating the hacking.
The hackers defaced the sites with images condemning CEO Sheldon Adelson for comments he made last fall at Yeshiva University in New York about using nuclear weapons on Iran. The hacking affected Sands’ corporate website, the sites for casinos in Pennsylvania and the Italian-themed Venetian and Palazzo on the Las Vegas Strip as well as casinos in China and Singapore.
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