{"id":777003788,"date":"2023-03-28T14:20:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T17:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777003788"},"modified":"2026-04-22T23:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:20:23","slug":"crown-resorts-investigates-potential-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/crown-resorts-investigates-potential-data-breach","title":{"rendered":"Crown Resorts investigates potential data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The casino operator has been contacted by a group that claims to have obtained a number of Crown files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Australia.- Crown Resorts<\/strong> is investigating a potential data breach after being contacted by a group claiming to have gained access to some of its files using ransomware. The breach is believed to be linked to a cyberattack on the third-party file transfer service GoAnywhere, which has been impacted globally.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Crown Resorts spokesperson said that no customer data has been compromised <\/strong>and that business operations have not been affected.\u00a0 The company is working with law enforcement and has notified gaming regulators as part of its ongoing investigation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The incident comes amid a spate of high-profile cyberattacks in Australia, including one on consumer finance firm Latitude Group<\/strong>, in which, according to Reuters, hackers stole nearly 8m Australian and New Zealand driver licence numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See also: <\/strong>Crown Resorts launches multi-year transformation programme<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crown Resorts<\/a>\u00a0reported an AU$945.4m (US$632.18m) loss for 2022 while earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) was negative AU$699.6m. Revenue was up 20 per cent<\/strong>\u00a0year-on-year to AU$1.9bn (US$1.27bn). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crown Melbourne\u2019s revenue increased from AU$567.5m to AU$923.8m and Crown Sydney\u2019s from AU$68.4m to AU$113m, while Crown Perth\u2019s revenue fell from AU$740.9m to AU$731.7m.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The casino operator has been contacted by a group that claims to have obtained a number of Crown files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Crown Resorts is investigating a potential data breach stemming from a global cyberattack on the third-party file transfer service GoAnywhere. While the operator asserts no customer data or business operations have been compromised, the incident underscores critical supply chain cybersecurity vulnerabilities and has prompted engagement with law enforcement and notification to gaming regulators, highlighting the sector's stringent governance frameworks.","focusai_entities":"Crown Resorts, GoAnywhere, Latitude Group, Reuters","focusai_location":"Australia, New Zealand, Melbourne, Sydney, Perth","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.98), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.9), tech_data (0.95), payments_fraud_aml (0.75), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Vendor Risk Management","query":"What specific enhancements to third-party vendor risk management and cybersecurity protocols will Crown Resorts implement following the GoAnywhere breach?"},{"label":"Regulatory Compliance Impact","query":"What are the anticipated regulatory implications and potential compliance directives from gaming authorities following Crown Resorts' notification regarding this data incident?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,157,158],"tags":[14657],"class_list":["post-777003788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-business-news","category-slider-home","tag-crown-resorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003788","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=777003788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777003800,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003788\/revisions\/777003800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777003788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777003788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777003788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}