Claim

Las Vegas Sands cyber-attack ATTRIBUTED_TO Iranian government

James Clapper attributed the attack against Las Vegas Sands to Iran; Jack presents this as an official attribution to the Iranian government or military, while noting the broader circumstances and motives were uncertain.

Episode
EP 37 — LVS
Origin
Attributed
Confidence
97% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
James Clapper
Attributed source
James Clapper

Transcript evidence

“2014 saw for the first time destructive cyber-attacks carried out on [00:25:00] US soil by nation state entities marked first by the Iranian attack against the Las Vegas Sands Casino Corporation”

James Clapper · offsets 25435–25629

“James Clapper is saying that the people who did it was the Iranian government itself”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 26027–26111

Read the official transcript

Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T05:40:13.156717+00:00

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