Lina Khan Got Stuck in the Fallout of the MGM Hack at Las Vegas
- The FTC chair was among the thousands staying at MGM hotels
- A hack over the weekend forced MGM to take down systems
Lina Khan.
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Among the hotel patrons snarled in the fallout of MGM Resorts International’s cyberattack was — unfortunately for the company — one very high-profile figure: Lina Khan, the chair of the US Federal Trade Commission.
On Tuesday night, she was among the 45 people waiting to check in at the MGM Grand along the Las Vegas strip as staff worked to manually fulfill everyone’s reservation, according to people familiar with the matter. When Khan and her staff got to the front of the line, an employee at the desk asked them to write down their credit card information on a piece of paper.