Cybersecurity
UK Police Arrest 17-Year-Old in Connection to MGM Resorts Hack
- Group known as Scattered Spider accused of last year’s attack
- Police didn’t detail allegations against the Walsall teen
The MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
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UK police have arrested a British teenager for his alleged part in a hacking group that has carried out a series of ransomware attacks, including one that disrupted casinos and hotels at MGM Resorts International last year.
Officers took the 17-year-old into custody on Thursday on suspicion of blackmail and violating the Computer Misuse Act violations, the West Midlands Police said in a statement Friday. He was subsequently released on bail, police said. Investigators recovered digital devices and other evidence from the teenager’s home in the community of Walsall, and it is being examined as part of an ongoing international probe involving the FBI, according to the statement.