Las Vegas had an unwelcome visitor in the form of a cyberattack that struck early in the morning of January 7 that caused some service interruptions that have since been resolved.

On the same day that the massive International CES event kicked off, city officials reported what they called a “cyber compromise” taking place at about 4:30 a.m. No further details have been given on what type of incident took place, but as of January 8 the city tweeted it had avoided a major problem and all systems were up and running.

https://twitter.com/CityOfLasVegas/status/1214940995738988544

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