{"id":215733,"date":"2026-02-20T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/shinyhunters-demands-1-5m-not-to-leak-wynn-resorts-data-the-register\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T14:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:30:10","slug":"shinyhunters-demands-1-5m-not-to-leak-wynn-resorts-data-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/shinyhunters-demands-1-5m-not-to-leak-wynn-resorts-data-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"ShinyHunters demands $1.5M not to leak Wynn Resorts data \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/02\/20\/shinyhunters_wynn_resorts\/\">ShinyHunters demands $1.5M not to leak Wynn Resorts data \u2022 The Register<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/02\/20\/shinyhunters_wynn_resorts\/\">https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/02\/20\/shinyhunters_wynn_resorts\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-20 13:27:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theregister.com\">www.theregister.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas hotel and casino giant Wynn Resorts appears to be the latest victim of data-grabbing and extortion gang ShinyHunters.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the cybercrime crew listed the hospitality company on its blog, claiming to have stolen more than 800,000 records containing employees&#8217; Social Security numbers and other private details. The extortionists set a February 23 deadline for Wynn to &#8220;reach out&#8221; and threatened to leak the data, &#8220;along with several annoying (digital) problems that&#8217;ll come your way,&#8221; if the resort chain did not comply with the demands.<\/p>\n<p>Samples of the stolen data seen by The Register contain employees&#8217; full names, emails, phone numbers, positions, salaries, start dates, birthdays, and other personal information.<\/p>\n<p>Wynn Resorts, which owns five resorts, 81 restaurants, and 200 high-end retail outlets, did not immediately respond to The Register&#8217;s inquiries. We will update this story when we hear back from the company.<\/p>\n<p>ShinyHunters set a fee of 22.34 Bitcoin (about $1.5 million) as the &#8220;starting price&#8221; for the stolen files, according to a spokesperson for the crime group, who told The Register that the digital intruders gained initial access to Wynn&#8217;s systems in September 2025 via an Oracle PeopleSoft vulnerability using an employee&#8217;s credentials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shiny declined to say if it got the Wynn employee to give up the credentials via a social engineering trick, or simply paid the individual for access. The group has previously used Telegram to solicit insider access, and in one case reportedly claimed it agreed to pay a CrowdStrike employee $25,000 for access, though the security shop said no systems were breached.<\/p>\n<p>The claimed Wynn Resorts breach follows a slew of recent ShinyHunters intrusions, several of which involved voice phishing to obtain single-sign-on codes from users of Okta, Microsoft, and Google services.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also notable that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/02\/20\/shinyhunters_wynn_resorts\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShinyHunters demands $1.5M not to leak Wynn Resorts data \u2022 The Register https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/02\/20\/shinyhunters_wynn_resorts\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2026\/02\/20\/wynn_vegas_reflection.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,25,27],"class_list":["post-215733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach","tag-phishing","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215735,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215733\/revisions\/215735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}