{"id":16812,"date":"2021-04-13T11:04:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T11:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=16812"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:26:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:26:02","slug":"tasmania-federal-group-casinos-hit-by-ransomware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/tasmania-federal-group-casinos-hit-by-ransomware-attack","title":{"rendered":"Tasmania: Federal Group casinos hit by ransomware attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Federal Group had to shut its Wrest Point and the Country Club casinos after a ransomware attack affected pokie machines and hotel bookings systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.- Federal Group, a company primarily known for its casino and gaming assets in Tasmania, has revealed that it has been affected by <strong>a ransomware attack since April 3<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>cyberattack has affected its pokies machines and hotel booking system for more than a week\u00a0<\/strong>and caused the casino operator to have to close activities at Wrest Point and Country Club casinos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As yet, it remains unknown whether the <strong>ransomware attack leaked credit card or customer personal information<\/strong>. The operator has yet to count the financial costs of the attact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the ABC newspaper,<strong>\u00a0players have spent AU$53.7m on poker machines<\/strong>\u00a0at Federal Group&#8217;s two casinos over the last eight months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daniel Hanna, Federal Group executive director, said the incident has been contained. He said that <strong>the Australian Cyber Security Centre was notified<\/strong>\u00a0and was carrying out continued forensic analysis in coordination with law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong>\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/australia-record-spend-on-poker-machines-in-northern-territory\">Australia: record spend on poker machines in Northern Territory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is a ransomware attack?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ransomware is<strong> a form of malware that encrypts a victim&#8217;s files<\/strong>. If the infected device is in a network, <strong>it can shut down entire companies, hospitals and universities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ransomware usually<strong> displays messages demanding a fee <\/strong>to be paid in order to allow the system to work again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Group had to shut its Wrest Point and the Country Club casinos after a ransomware attack affected pokie machines and hotel bookings systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":16813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Federal Group, a prominent Australian casino operator, experienced a ransomware attack affecting its Wrest Point and Country Club casinos, leading to the closure of gaming operations and hotel booking system disruptions. While the incident has been contained and authorities notified, the financial impact and potential for customer data breaches remain under assessment. This event highlights critical cybersecurity vulnerabilities within the iGaming sector.","focusai_entities":"Federal Group, Daniel Hanna, Australian Cyber Security Centre, ABC newspaper","focusai_location":"Australia, Tasmania","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.92), operator_casino (0.95), tech_data (0.98), marketing_crm (0.75), payments_fraud_aml (0.88), investor_analyst (0.93), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"NGR Impact Assessment","query":"What is the estimated Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) impact from the operational disruption and casino closures, and how quickly can full operational capacity be restored?"},{"label":"Regulatory Compliance Fallout","query":"What are the potential implications for Federal Group's B2C licensing status and regulatory compliance given the cybersecurity breach and operational disruption?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16812"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16835,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16812\/revisions\/16835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}