I received a letter from a casino in WA detailing a theft of personal information in possession of a Bally Technologie's employee in Vegas including name, social security #, drivers license #, and banking information. Apparently the employee's home in Vegas was burglarized.
My question is why, in the age of remote access was it necessary to have this data outside the casino and obviously the casino doesn't explicitly state that the info will leave the casino.
A newspaper article is here: http://www.goskagit.com/news/informa...9bb2963f4.html
and a thread on the subject is here: http://slotfanatics.com/showthread.p...om-a-WA-casino
And the article says:
"Information stolen from some casino customers
.Posted: Friday, December 28, 2012 11:02 am
Information stolen from some casino customers
Kate Martin Skagit Valley Herald
BOW — Some customers of Skagit Valley Casino Resort can qualify for credit report monitoring after their personal information was stolen from one of the casino’s vendors.
The unencrypted customer information was stolen from a Bally Technologies software engineer’s home office, said Harry Chesnin, general counsel for the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe. The tribe owns and operates Skagit Valley Casino Resort.
Information was sent to Bally to be tested with new technology, he said. That information is usually encrypted with a computer program, Chesnin said, but some of the information was not encrypted.
In late October, the engineer’s apartment in the Las Vegas area was broken into. Computers, jewelry and televisions were stolen, as was the unencrypted information, Chesnin said.
The thieves were more than likely after the items and not the information, he said. Computers would have had their hard drives wiped before an illicit sale to prevent tracking the information back to the theft, he said.
The Skagit Valley Casino did not learn of the theft until Nov. 29. To say the tribe was upset at Bally for the month-long delay in informing the casino of the theft is “putting it mildly,” Chesnin said. The casino sent a letter to customers who may have been impacted last week."