Author: Jack Morse / Source: Mashable
The casino is “pretty certain” it wasn’t hacked.
The annual DEF CON hacking convention returned once again to Las Vegas this weekend, and with it came the typical good-natured mischief that’s bound to happen when thousands of cybersecurity professionals congregate in one spot.
Early Saturday morning at the Linq casino, however, looked to be something else entirely.It was around 1:00 or 2:00 a.m. and DEF CON attendee Matt Anderson was hanging out at the Linq — a casino just across the street from Caesars Palace, the convention’s host — when it happened: Dozens of slot machines went down, all at once.
“I talked to a pit boss about it who was kind of panicking,” Anderson told us. “No one else knew what was happening, but ALL slots were dead/errored out.”
Video he shot and sent to Mashable shows practically every single machine in sight either offline completely or showing some…
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