Online Casino Transfer: News - Breach of Security

02/08/2010		Online Casino Style: News Breach of Security - 1
Home History Games News Dictionary		It’s a case of ‘Good News, Bad News’ in the UK online gambling world this week with the news that a breach of security had been had at one of the internet casino world’s most popular sites, Ladbrokes. The bad news was the attempted sale of confidential information for thousands of British gamblers utilizing the site; the good news was that the details for sale excluded all financial information, such as credit card numbers, log-ons and passwords. The ish hit the fan with the purported attempted sale by a mysterious Australian to the British news source The Mail over a week ago. The alleged theft is not the center of a major criminal investigation over privacy in the UK. The information for the players included a variety of personal details, such as names, home addresses, Ladbrokes account numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers and email addresses as well as a record of gambling histories. Ten thousand files were provided up front, with the offer including access to more than 4.5 million other accounts throughout the UK and from all over the world, should the right price be met. Immediately following the offer of the information, stolen from online gambling group Ladbrokes, the newspaper alerted the authorities, providing the customer files over to the Information Commissioner’s Officer, the department of British government that watches over the safety of electronic data. Investigations were launched immediately. Ladbrokes itself has since begun contacting customers to reassure them that all credit card details as well as bank account access information was not compromised. Passwords and other financial data were not included in the stolen databases. "The ICO takes breaches of individuals' privacy very seriously. Any organization which processes personal information must ensure that adequate safeguards are in place to keep that information secure,” said a spokesperson following the breaking of the story. “We are grateful to The Mail on Sunday for bringing this security breach to our attention and will be contacting Ladbrokes to establish how it occurred and to find out what steps it will be taking to ensure that such a breach cannot happen again. One of the main questions circulating the internet gambling community right now is who is the culprit? While the sale originated from one particular individual, investigations continue to determine just how loud his story rings true. The Mail led the seller on in order to gather more details, initially, trying to find out how the breach came to happen in Ladbrokes, one of the most trusted names in the online casino community. The man, who game his name as ‘Daniel,’ said that he used to work with Ladbrokes as a computer security expert in Britain. His claim of employment for the firm has yet to be determined, but he did say that he was working on behalf of an Australian company on the sale of personal data. to be continued in Breach of Security - 2

02/08/2010

Online Casino Style: News
Breach of Security - 1

It’s a case of ‘Good News, Bad News’ in the UK online gambling world this week with the news that a breach of security had been had at one of the internet casino world’s most popular sites, Ladbrokes. The bad news was the attempted sale of confidential information for thousands of British gamblers utilizing the site; the good news was that the details for sale excluded all financial information, such as credit card numbers, log-ons and passwords.

The ish hit the fan with the purported attempted sale by a mysterious Australian to the British news source The Mail over a week ago. The alleged theft is not the center of a major criminal investigation over privacy in the UK. The information for the players included a variety of personal details, such as names, home addresses, Ladbrokes account numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers and email addresses as well as a record of gambling histories. Ten thousand files were provided up front, with the offer including access to more than 4.5 million other accounts throughout the UK and from all over the world, should the right price be met.

Immediately following the offer of the information, stolen from online gambling group Ladbrokes, the newspaper alerted the authorities, providing the customer files over to the Information Commissioner’s Officer, the department of British government that watches over the safety of electronic data. Investigations were launched immediately. Ladbrokes itself has since begun contacting customers to reassure them that all credit card details as well as bank account access information was not compromised. Passwords and other financial data were not included in the stolen databases. "The ICO takes breaches of individuals' privacy very seriously. Any organization which processes personal information must ensure that adequate safeguards are in place to keep that information secure,” said a spokesperson following the breaking of the story. “We are grateful to The Mail on Sunday for bringing this security breach to our attention and will be contacting Ladbrokes to establish how it occurred and to find out what steps it will be taking to ensure that such a breach cannot happen again.

One of the main questions circulating the internet gambling community right now is who is the culprit? While the sale originated from one particular individual, investigations continue to determine just how loud his story rings true. The Mail led the seller on in order to gather more details, initially, trying to find out how the breach came to happen in Ladbrokes, one of the most trusted names in the online casino community. The man, who game his name as ‘Daniel,’ said that he used to work with Ladbrokes as a computer security expert in Britain. His claim of employment for the firm has yet to be determined, but he did say that he was working on behalf of an Australian company on the sale of personal data.

to be continued in Breach of Security - 2