{"id":2343,"date":"2014-02-18T05:06:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T13:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2014-02-18T05:06:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T13:06:08","slug":"las-vegas-sands-websites-restored-1-week-after-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/02\/18\/las-vegas-sands-websites-restored-1-week-after-hacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Sands websites restored 1 week after hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/shutterstock_135704426.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/shutterstock_135704426-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_135704426\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/shutterstock_135704426-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/shutterstock_135704426-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/shutterstock_135704426.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LAS VEGAS &#8211; Casino giant Las Vegas Sands Corp. has restored its websites a week after they were hacked.<\/p>\n<p>The Las Vegas-based company pulled down its sites Feb. 13 after hackers defaced them with images condemning comments CEO Sheldon Adelson had made about using nuclear weapons on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Sands restored the websites Monday afternoon. The company first became aware of the hacking on Feb. 12, when company email went down, Sands spokesman Ron Reese said.<\/p>\n<p>The hacking affected Sands&#8217; corporate website, as well as the sites for casinos in China, Singapore, Bethlehem, Pa., and the Italian-themed Venetian and Palazzo on the Las Vegas Strip.<\/p>\n<p>Reese didn&#8217;t say whether internal systems were also operating again. Sands employees regained access to company email on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Sands is working with the FBI and Secret Service to investigate the cyberattack, and it&#8217;s also co-operating with state gambling regulators.<\/p>\n<p>Adelson is an outspoken supporter of Israel and a generous donor to U.S. Republican Party campaigns. He spoke in October about dropping a nuclear bomb on Iran, saying strength was the only thing the country understands.<\/p>\n<p>The hackers at one point referred to themselves as the &#8220;Anti WMD Team.&#8221; Cybersecurity experts say it could have taken several months for so-called hacktivists to complete an attack on Sands&#8217; networks in response to the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Sands owns the world&#8217;s largest casino, in the Chinese gambling enclave of Macau.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s net income was $2.31 billion last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS &#8211; Casino giant Las Vegas Sands Corp. has restored its websites a week after they were hacked. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[322,324,323],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-technology","tag-casino","tag-hacking","tag-websites","mauthors-hannah-dreier","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}