targeted, allegedly by an outside government. we re now learning details of a computer attack on sands casinos. as cnn s brian todd reports, that cyberattack may have been meant to punish the company s ceo for comments he made about iran. reporter: a cascading attack, servers shut down, screens go blank. a rush to unplug computers. this wasn t the hack on sony. this attack hit the world s largest casino operation, including the venetian hotel in las vegas ten months ago, and this also may have been the work of a rogue nation. cnn has learned on february 10th of this year, thousands of employees at sands casinos in las vegas and bethlehem, pennsylvania, had their computers hit. one former employee says, quote, hundreds of people were calling i.t. iran is suspected to be behind the attack, according to reports in bloomberg business week and slate. sands won t comment. one expert believes iran has the capability to do this.
major questions how hackers or cyber terrorists cracked into a company on u.s. soil. as we all know, sony caved to their demands but this is not the first company that has been targeted. less than a year ago another major american company was hacked and our brian todd has that story. reporter: a cascading attack, servers shut down, screens go blank, a rush to unplug computers. this wasn t the hack on sony, this was this attack hit the world s largest casino operation, including the venetian hotel in las vegas ten months ago. and this also may have been the work of a rogue nation. cnn has learned on february 10 of this year thousands of employees at sands casinos in las vegas and bethlehem, pennsylvania, had their computers hit.
the white house is labeling the attack on seen knee as a national security threat against the united states and promising a proportional response. u.s. investigators have concluded that north korea is behind the attack. we re also learning new details about a computer attack earlier this year. the source, another long-time adversary of the united states. cnn s brian todd is looking into this for us. what are you learning? wolf, many think the attack on sony was the first time that a foreign government tried to destroy the network of a company because it didn t like what that company said or did. we re learning new details on the attack of a casino operation in the world, an effort, allegedly, to punish that company for comments made by its chairman. a cascading attack, servers shut