2014 Las Vegas Sands — destructive intrusion; widespread wiper impact; Iran-linked hacktivism narrative
Data compromised
Mix of employee HR identifiers and casino patron/administrative records per contemporaneous news reconstructions—no standardized breach form census
Technical writeup
In February 2014, Las Vegas Sands Corp. suffered a high-profile destructive cyberattack that wiped thousands of servers and knocked customer-facing sites and email offline for days, with investigative journalists and think-tank trackers linking motivation to geopolitical hacktivism following public remarks by Sheldon Adelson. Beyond disruption, reporting described exfiltration and dumping of employee and patron administrative data from Bethlehem and Las Vegas operations, making the incident both an availability catastrophe and a data-exposure case study for the gaming sector.
Root cause
Multi-stage intrusion culminating in wiper deployment and public data dumps (attribution discussed in open sources; not a single CVE)