British police have arrested a 17-year-old boy in connection with last year’s cyber attack on MGM Resorts, according to BBC and BBC reports. 404 media. West Midlands Police, with help from the FBI and Britain’s National Crime Agency, took the teenager into custody on Friday on suspicion of breaching Britain’s laws on hacking and extortion.
West Midlands Police said the suspect had been released on bail pending police inquiries. It will also conduct a forensic examination of “a number of digital devices” recovered from the teenager’s address in Walsall, England.
Bryan Vorndran, Assistant Director of the FBI’s Cyber Division, said: “The FBI will work with its partners to continue to relentlessly pursue malicious actors targeting U.S. companies, no matter where they are located and no matter their How complex the technology is.
A report comes from Reuters It said last year that the FBI knew about the casino hackers six months before the breach and that the agency “struggled” to stop them despite knowing the identities of “at least a dozen members.”
