This indictment's victims include MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment
Assessment
No source reviewed for this paper — not the original indictment, either DOJ press release, or the First Superseding Indictment's overt-acts section — names MGM Resorts, Caesars Entertainment, or any of the twelve anonymized "Victim Companies" specifically. Press coverage of "Scattered Spider" broadly and correctly reports that the actor cluster hit MGM and Caesars in September 2023, but that is five months after this indictment's own charged conspiracy period ends (12 April 2023), and involved different, separately prosecuted individuals (including Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers, sentenced in a UK-related case in July 2026). Readers who assume this case's defendants are responsible for MGM/Caesars are extending an unconfirmed inference the charging documents do not support.
Where this claim appeared
General press usage (no single outlet directly conflates the two; risk noted from the pattern across coverage) · 2026-06-23
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/scattered-spider-hackers-plead-guilty-on-day-1-of-trial/What “Unverified” means
Widely repeated, but no supporting evidence was located. This is not a statement that the claim is false — it is a statement that nothing published supports it, which is a different and more common problem.
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