Payment system at Vegas casino operator breached twice

Affinity Gaming disclosed a second breach into its network, after revealing in December a similar hack last year.

“We are confident that the hackers could not remove credit card data beginning in the evening of April 28, 2014. We do not have that confidence before April 28. The active investigation will probably continue for another two weeks,” said Jim Prendergast, an attorney for the company.

Affinity, which operates 11 casinos in four states including the off-Strip Silver Sevens, divulged the latest breach on its website April 28.

In December, the company said the same system had been hacked March 14, 2013 through Oct. 16, 2013, resulting in the compromise of credit data on about 280,000 to 300,000 customers.

Affinity did not say how many customers might be affected by the newest incident.

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