Hacked & Cyber-Attack3/31/2019
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Planet Hollywood and Buca di Beppo Parent Confirms 2.15 Million Customer Credit Cards Breached
(USA) -- What do Buca di Beppo, Planet Hollywood, Earl of Sandwich, and the L.A. hotspot Mixology 101 have in common? They're all owned by Earl Enterprises... and...
3/28/2019
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Class action considered over Casino Rama security breach
(Toronto) -- As many as 200,000 people may have had their personal information stolen in a hack on servers at one of Ontario’s most popular casinos, a lawyer for...
3/5/2019
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Tribes Seek Separate Discovery Track Over Equifax Breach
(USA) -- Lawyers representing three Native American tribes have filed a motion to create a separate discovery track in the Equifax data breach litigation for Indian...
3/4/2019
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Bangladesh Bank keen to settle reserve heist with the Philippines
(Philippines) -- Bangladesh Bank is keen to leverage pressure from a US legal battle to come to an agreement with the Filipino defendants of a case over a central bank...
3/1/2019
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A Small Fish Tank’s Thermometer Was Used To Hack A Casino’s Database
(USA) -- A cybersecurity executive said that hackers used a fish tank which was connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) to get access to a casino’s high-roller...
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A Small Fish Tank’s Thermometer Was Used To Hack A Casino’s Database
(Las Vegas) -- A cybersecurity executive said that hackers used a fish tank which was connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) to get access to a casino’s high-...
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Marriott ends 2018 ahead despite data breach, strikes
(Wall Street) -- Marriott International is happy to leave 2018 in the past. During the company’s earnings call for the fourth quarter and full-year 2018, the...
2/27/2019
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Solaire operator Bloomberry Resorts Corp named in civil suit to reclaim US$81 million from 2016 Bangladesh Bank theft
(Philippines) -- Philippines IR operator Bloomberry Resorts Corporation has vowed to defend itself against legal proceedings after revealing that its gaming subsidiary,...
2/10/2019
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Police Investigating Alleged Assault at ICE as Bizarre Spat Develops Between ‘White-Hat’ Hacker and Casino Supplier, Atrient
(London) -- The International Casino Exhibition (ICE) has been raging all week at the ExCel convention center in London, where an unusual row has erupted between a self-...
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Researcher Assaulted By A Vendor After Disclosing A Vulnerability
(London) -- Following a serious vulnerability disclosure affecting casinos globally, an executive of casino technology vendor Atrient has allegedly assaulted the...
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Security Researcher Alleges Assault by Casino Vendor for Vulnerability Disclosure
(London) -- Like many white hat hackers, Dylan Wheeler admits that as a teenager he got his hands a little dirty and his hat, a little black – in his case...
2/7/2019
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Police Investigating Alleged Assault at ICE as Bizarre Spat Develops Between ‘White-Hat’ Hacker and Casino Supplier, Atrient
(London) -- The International Casino Exhibition (ICE) has been raging all week at the ExCel convention center in London, where an unusual row has erupted between a self-...
2/5/2019
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A bank wants to recover the $81 million North Korea allegedly stole. It won't be easy.
(New York) -- The New York Federal Reserve is assisting Bangladesh’s central bank in a lawsuit filed Thursday to claw back $81 million in funds stolen during a...
2/1/2019
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Fallout Over Hack by N. Koreans Hits Philippines Bank
(New York) -- Bangladesh’s central bank brought a federal complaint against one of the largest banks in the Philippines on Thursday to recover $80 million that it...
1/30/2019
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Bangladesh to sue Manila bank over $81 million cyber heist: cenbank governor
(Philippines) -- Bangladesh will file a lawsuit in a U.S. court on Wednesday against Philippine bank Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) over its role in one of the...
1/21/2019
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Online casino group leaks information on 108 million bets, including user details
(Internet) -- An online casino group has leaked information on over 108 million bets, including details about customers' personal information, deposits, and...
11/30/2018
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Marriott says hacking of Starwood Hotel database may have exposed info on 500 million people
(Worldwide) -- Marriott International Inc. has been investigating a hack involving unauthorized access to the guest reservation database at its Starwood unit since 2014...
11/15/2018
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Phoenix man convicted of hacking computers of tribal consultants
(Arizona) -- A Phoenix man was convicted Tuesday of hacking into the computers of a company that provides consulting services to Native American tribal governments....
10/3/2018
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North Korean hackers tied to massive global theft
(North Korea) -- North Korean government hackers have made off with hundreds of millions of dollars by targeting financial institutions globally, then hiding their...
9/18/2018
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Decentralized, EOS-based ‘Smart’ Casinos Hacked, Over $250,000 Stolen
(Internet) -- EOSBet and DEOSGames, two blockchain-based “smart” casinos were hacked last week, leading to the theft of more than $250,000 in EOS, the...
9/16/2018
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Two EOS Gambling Platforms Fall Prey to $260,000 Hack
(The Internet) -- Smart contracts on two EOS gambling platforms have been hacked in the last four days to the tune of more than a quarter of a million dollars, with...
9/14/2018
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Hacker exploits EOS smart contract to steal $200K from gambling app
(The Internet) -- A million-dollar EOS gambling dApp suffered a major blow, just days after declaring itself to be the safest of its kind. Hackers have taken 40,000 EOS...
9/4/2018
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DraftKings given federal go-ahead to subpoena DDOS perpetrators
(Massachusetts) -- Daily fantasy sports operator DraftKings has confirmed that it was subjected to a denial of service attack last month with its website flooded with...
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DraftKings Prepares to Fight Back Against Unknown Hackers
(Massachusetts) -- Hackers attacked the website of daily fantasy sports giant DraftKings last month. Now the company is trying to fight back. On Friday, a federal judge...
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Hackers used a fish tank to break into a Vegas casino. We’re all in trouble.
(Las Vegas) -- Bruce Schneier’s new book, “Click Here to Kill Everybody,” explains the security risks of a new world of household devices connected to...
9/3/2018
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DraftKings wins court order to unmask DDoS attackers
(Massachusetts) -- Daily fantasy / sports betting operator DraftKings is taking legal action to unmask the perpetrators of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack...
9/2/2018
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Fantasy sports site DraftKings files lawsuit over attack
(Massachusetts) -- Daily fantasy sports giant DraftKings says it was attacked last month with a denial of service that prevented customers from using its website for a...
9/1/2018
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DraftKings hit by cyberattack ahead of NFL season kickoff
(Massachusetts) -- Days after DraftKings launched its much-awaited sports betting service in New Jersey, the company fell victim to a cyberattack that brought down its...
8/12/2018
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Dozens of Vegas slots went offline simultaneously during a hacker convention
(Las Vegas) -- The casino is "pretty certain" it wasn't hacked. The annual DEF CON hacking convention returned once again to Las Vegas this weekend, and...
5/23/2018
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Las Vegas is this country’s most 'cyber insecure' metro area
(Las Vegas) -- Las Vegas is this country’s most “cyber insecure” metro area, according to an Israeli-based cloud security vendor. Coronet, in its...
5/2/2018
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The Billion-Dollar Bank Job
(Bangladesh) -- In 2016, a mysterious syndicate tried to steal $951 million from Bangladesh’s central bank - and laid bare a profound weakness in the system by...
3/30/2018
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How man ‘hacked’ lotto
(Massachusetts) -- A RETIRED Kellogg's worker with a knack for mathematics raked in more than $10 million profit by gaming an obscure state lottery with his wife,...
12/19/2017
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Maryland Man Pleads Guilty in Chicago Federal Hacking Case
(Illinois) -- A Maryland man has pleaded guilty in Chicago federal court to running a hacker-for-hire service that shut down websites and affected people around the...
11/27/2017
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Server Hack Causes Lottery Crisis on Sunday
(Belize) -- Yesterday Boledo lovers from all across the country were in a crisis when the Boledo machines froze up and they couldn't buy their numbers for the Sunday...
10/10/2017
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Casinos Facing Continuing Threat From Data Breaches
(Las Vegas) -- Growing cybersecurity risks mean gambling companies must be prepared for how to respond to a data breach and be ready to navigate the patchwork of state...
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Graton casino suffers “data breach”
(California) -- A spokeswoman for the Graton Resort and Casino revealed earlier this week that an undisclosed number of patrons at the facility were being notified by...
9/5/2017
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DDoS ‘terrorist’ tells Nagy ‘another site’ pays for attacks on the WPN
(The Internet) -- After the Winning Poker Network suffered a weekend of Distributed Denial of Service attacks, CEO Philip Nagy, begins to believe the attacks may be...
8/5/2017
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Russian mathematician-turned-hacker has cracked slot machines. His secret: seeing through pseudo-random numbers
(Russia) -- Late last autumn, a Russian mathematician and programmer named Alex decided he’d had enough of running his eight-year-old business. Though his St....
7/28/2017
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Criminals Hacked A Fish Tank To Steal Data From A Casino
(USA) -- Hackers are a resourceful bunch, and they'll look for any weakness that can be exploited to break in to a computer network. Once they're in, they'll...
7/25/2017
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From hacked casino fish tanks to malicious links, cybersecurity threats are everywhere — and startups are raking in the dough
(USA) -- Cybersecurity isn't exactly new, but it's becoming one of the hottest areas on the startup scene. With global malware attacks like WannaCry garnering...
7/21/2017
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How a fish tank helped hack a casino
(Washington D.C.) -- Hackers are constantly looking for new ways to access people’s data. Most recently, the way was as simple as a fish tank. The hackers...
7/20/2017
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A smart fish tank left a casino vulnerable to hackers
(USA) -- Most people know about phishing -- but one casino recently learned about the dangers of actual fish tanks. Hackers attempted to steal data from a North American...
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Hackers nab $32mn in ethereum cryptocurrency
(The Internet) -- Some $32 million worth of ether cryptocurrency has been stolen by hackers. Ether, a digital currency, resides on the ethereum network and is now a...
7/11/2017
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Hard Rock, Loews hotels admit data breach
(USA) -- Hard Rock Hotels & Casinos alongside Loews Hotels have warned customers that a security failure may have resulted in the theft of their information. Both...
6/19/2017
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Canadian miners, casinos hit by hacker eyeing new targets
(Toronto) -- The same hacker targeting Canadian casinos and mining companies for extortion since 2013 is planning more attacks, researchers at cyber security company...
6/13/2017
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Hackers leak Cowboys Casino documents online one year after 2016 data breach
(Calgary) -- A year after a cyberattack at the Cowboys Casino in Calgary, hackers have leaked personal information about hundreds of patrons and staff. Thousands of...
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Questions and answers on the Cowboy's Casino cyber attack
(Calgary) -- Customers and staff of Cowboy's Casino in Calgary who have had their personal information leaked online probably have a lot of questions about what...
6/12/2017
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Cowboys Casino hackers dump hundreds of documents with customer payouts, personal information
(Calgary) -- Personal information along with the gambling habits and payouts of hundreds of patrons of Calgary's Cowboys Casino have been dumped online by hackers, a...
5/29/2017
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COLUMN: How Russian hackers cracked the random number generators
(Atlantic City) -- Q. Have you heard about the Russian slot hack where they could predict the next spin? They won money at casinos around the world. If random number...
5/9/2017
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DDoS Attack On Gaming, Gambling Sites In Hong Kong Believed To Be Extortion Attempt
(Hong Kong) -- In the first two weeks of April, sudden spikes of traffic started hitting gaming and gambling sites in Hong Kong. The increased rush weren’t anxious...
4/6/2017
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Cyberthreats becoming more sophisticated, FBI specialist says in Las Vegas
(Las Vegas) -- Multinational cybercriminal syndicates are becoming more sophisticated in their hacking methods and nearly rival the capabilities of a nation’s...
3/17/2017
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Russian slot hackers focusing on new targets, group told
(Las Vegas) -- An international syndicate of Russian hackers that cashed out millions from slots in U.S. casinos over the years is focusing its efforts on South America...
2/14/2017
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20,000+ tribal members warned of data breach
(Montana) -- A Bureau of Indian Affairs spokeswoman says more than 20,000 members of two Montana American Indian tribes were notified of a potential data breach...
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ICYMI: Russians Engineer a Brilliant Slot Machine Cheat—And Casinos Have No Fix
(USA) -- In early June 2014, accountants at the Lumiere Place Casino in St. Louis noticed that several of their slot machines had—just for a couple of days—...
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Where hackers take their money - Casinos, Cryptocurrency, and Virtual Worlds
(Worldwide) -- Cybercrime is reaching epidemic levels. Some estimates predict global annual cybercrime costs will reach $6 trillion by 2021. This includes the costs of...
1/26/2017
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Security experts call Grey Eagle Casino security breach a wake-up call
(Calgary) -- Computer security experts say confidential employee information hacked from a computer in an office at the Calgary-area casino is the tip of a much bigger...
1/25/2017
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Grey Eagle Casino employee information leaked in major privacy breach
(Alberta) -- The Grey Eagle Resort and Casino is dealing with a major privacy breach, just one week after a malicious text message went out. Police are investigating...
1/9/2017
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1.5M accounts exposed after eSports org balks at hacker's ransom demand
(The Internet) -- The eSports Entertainment Association (ESEA) confirmed today that an unidentified malefactor breached ESEA servers last year, then published a trove of...
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ESEA user data released after $100,000 ransom refusal
(The Internet) -- The E-Sports Entertainment Association said in a statement on Monday that after it refused to pay a $100,000 ransom, hackers released the data of many...
12/14/2016
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Yahoo: An "Unauthorized Third Party" Hacked 1 Billion User Acconts
(California) -- There are seven billion people on Earth. On Wednesday, Yahoo announced one billion email accounts it managed were hacked. “Based on further...
12/13/2016
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PH bank says no role in heist, Bangladesh Bank responsible
(Philippines) -- The Philippine bank through which $81 million stolen from Bangladesh's central bank was channeled in February said on Tuesday that the central bank...
11/28/2016
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Philippines president cancels meeting with Bangladesh team
(Philippines) -- The high-level Bangladesh team visiting the Philippines to recover the rest of $81 million could not meet President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday after he...
11/23/2016
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Non-Casino Rama patron also victim of cyber attack
(Toronto) -- A man who never stepped foot in Casino Rama was stunned to get a letter advising him that his personal information may have been stolen in a cyber attack...
11/21/2016
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'FIFA' hackers guilty of 'mining' $16 million from EA
(California) -- We tend to think of 'wire fraud' as a white collar crime perpetrated against a banking institution, but in a world with virtual currencies and...
11/14/2016
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Two gamblers spearhead class action against Casino Rama data breach
(Ontario) -- Two gamblers who allege their privacy was breached are spearheading a proposed class action against an Ontario casino whose databases were hacked. In a...
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5 best practices of casino software penetration testing
(The Internet) -- According to Wikipedia global gabling market is worth as much as $45.86 billion. That’s a lot of money – more than entire economies of...
11/13/2016
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Hacker begins publishing hacked Casino Rama data
(Toronto) -- The Casino Rama Resort in Ontario, Canada announced Thursday that the facility had suffered a data breach that could have compromised information going back...
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Statement of claim for proposed lawsuit against Casino Rama to be filed Monday
(Toronto) -- A statement of claim for a proposed class-action lawsuit against Casino Rama is expected to be filed Monday in Toronto. The proposed suit that is being...
11/11/2016
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Massive theft of Ontario’s Casino Rama data sparks proposed lawsuit
(Ontario) -- Class-action lawyers wasted little time Friday in jumping on word of a cyberattack on an Ontario casino in which sensitive information was stolen. The...
11/8/2016
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$15 million returned to Bangladesh from $81m stolen in cyber heist
(Bangladesh) -- A team from the Bangladesh Bank was in Manila Monday to start the process of moving some of the $81 million pilfered from its New York Federal Reserve in...
10/22/2016
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How Hackers Make Money from DDoS Attacks
(The Internet) -- Yesterday’s attack on the internet domain directory Dyn, which took major sites like Twitter and Paypal offline, was historic in scale. But the...
10/4/2016
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Online Gambling Industry Recoils at Mirai DDoS Attack Threat
(The Internet) -- Mirai, the and most powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack ever registered, was publicly posted online on Friday, prompting fears within...
10/2/2016
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Gambling Site Riding on Top US Universities to Google’s First Page
(The Internet) -- An innocent backlink & anchor text research led us to a mind-boggling discovery involving Google, a gambling site and prestigious universities in...
9/23/2016
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Yahoo Reveals Massive Data Breach; Internet Fixates On Fantasy Football
(California) -- Yahoo has revealed that it suffered a massive cyber breach in late 2014, which the company believes resulted in theft of information about the accounts...
8/17/2016
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Philippine ex-bank manager out on bail in case linked to cyber heist
(Philippines) -- A Philippine court on Thursday released on bail a former branch manager of a Manila bank in a perjury case linked to the world's largest known cyber...
8/2/2016
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Hackers hit Czech billionaire minister's companies to protest gambling law
(Czech Republic) -- The Anonymous hackers' group briefly shut down company websites of billionaire Czech Finance Minister Andrej Babis's food and agriculture...
7/19/2016
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Hacks Pose Huge Threat to Casinos
(Las Vegas) -- A recent Wendy’s hack exposed the credit card information of many of its customers. Coming on the heels of attacks on data ranging from infidelity...
7/18/2016
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Pokémon Go service downed, DDoSers rush to claim glory
(Worldwide) -- Pokémon Go has apparently been DDoSed and two separate groups are claiming responsibility. PoodleCorp and OurMine have both claimed ‘the glory'...
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Pokemon Go Will ‘Go Down’ August 1, Say Hackers
(Worldwide) -- Players of the new online gaming sensation Pokemon Go were disappointed to find that they couldn’t get online over the weekend, and a hacking group...
7/8/2016
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6,000 strong North Korean hacker army collects $866 million per year
(North Korea) -- Experts in South Korea estimate that North Korea’s hacker army numbers more than 6,000 people and earns $866 million US per year through online...
6/29/2016
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Hard Rock hotel-casino announces security breach
(Las Vegas) -- For the second time in about a year, the Hard Rock hotel-casino's card payment system has been breached. The casino says customers' names, card...
6/28/2016
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Las Vegas Hard Rock reports second credit card hack
(Las Vegas) -- The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on Monday said a credit card breach may have affected certain of its restaurant and retail outlets between...
6/6/2016
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Bangladesh heist perpetrators may never be identified, says ex-US official
(Bangladesh) -- A former top US intelligence official on cyber security has warned that government investigators may never be able to ascertain who carried out a cyber...
6/4/2016
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Cache Creek Casino among targets of alleged credit fraud scheme
(California) -- A federal grand jury returned a nine-count indictment last week against two people suspected of a nationwide credit fraud scheme that affected casinos...
5/23/2016
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Bangladesh Bank heist trail goes cold in Manila as probes falter
(Philippines) -- More than three months have passed since $81 million was stolen in a brazen cyber-heist from Bangladesh's central bank and sent to Manila –...
5/19/2016
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Bangladesh calls for Philippines to return stolen bank funds
(Philippines) -- The Philippines must immediately return millions of dollars recovered from a high-profile hacking theft, Bangladesh’s ambassador said in Manila,...
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Philippines senate ends probe into Bangladesh cyber heist
(Philippines) -- Philippine senators have wrapped up their investigation into the laundering of US$81 million stolen from the Bangladesh central bank. The two senators...
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Bangladeshi bank heist used official’s PC
(Bangladesh) -- A BANGLADESHI central bank official’s computer was used by unidentified hackers to make payments via SWIFT, and carry out one of the biggest-ever...
5/15/2016
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Vietnam bank says interrupted cyber heist using SWIFT messaging
(Vietnam) -- Vietnam’s Tien Phong Bank said that it interrupted an attempted cyber heist that involved the use of fraudulent SWIFT messages, the same technique at...
5/14/2016
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Details Emerge on Global Bank Heists by Hackers
(Bangladesh) -- Just how securely are banks moving money around the world? New details emerged on Friday about a pair of related attacks on banks that use the Swift...
5/11/2016
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FBI smells inside job in $81-M cyber heist
(Washington D.C.) -- The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) suspects the computer hacking theft of $81 million from Bangladesh’s central bank was in part an...
5/10/2016
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Casino Twist To Bangladesh Heist
(Bangladesh) -- There is a casino twist to the Bangladesh Bank heist case that has pump primed terrorism financing angle into focus with footprints traced to South-Asia...
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FBI Suspects Insider Involvement in $81 Million Bangladesh Bank Heist
(New York) -- U.S. investigators suspect the theft by computer hackers of $81 million from Bangladesh’s central bank was partly an inside job—the first hint...
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New York Fed, Bangladesh, Swift Join in Effort to Trace Stolen Funds
(New York) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Bangladesh's central bank and internal financial messaging provider Swift will work together to trace the $81...
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Philippines seeks to tighten money laundering laws after heist
(Philippines) -- The Philippines started the process to strengthen its anti-money laundering and bank secrecy laws on May 10, aiming to plug loopholes that allowed US$...
5/9/2016
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Philippine Bank President Quits Amid Heist Scandal
(Philippines) -- The cyberheist scandal that hit a large Philippine bank, in connection with a $81 million theft, claimed a victim last week. The president of Rizal...
5/4/2016
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Casino junket operator returns laundered money to AMLC
(Philippines) -- Casino junket operator Kim Wong returned yet another tranche of cash to the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) on Wednesday to fulfill his promise to...
4/30/2016
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Hackers’ $81 Million Sneak Attack on World Banking
(Bangladesh) -- Tens of millions of dollars siphoned from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. A shadowy set of casinos in the Philippines. A large bank in Bangladesh...
4/21/2016
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Philippines faces fallout from Bangladesh bank heist
(Philippines) -- An $81 million cybertheft from the Bangladeshi central bank has rocked the Philippines, where the money ended up, highlighting legal loopholes that...
4/18/2016
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Exposed Database Linked To Bitcoin Casino Account Thefts
(The Internet) -- Coinroll, a bitcoin casino, noted on its website that some customers reported their funds were stolen. A security researcher for MacKeeper, a Mac...
4/10/2016
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Bangladesh bank heist: Focus on gaps in Fed’s alert system
(Bangladesh) -- One of the most successful hi-tech bank robberies in history may have benefited from a more pedestrian source: bankers’ hours. Two months after...
4/2/2016
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Gamblers Played $30 Million of Stolen Funds in Philippine Casino
(Philippines) -- A total of 19 people gambled 1.37 billion pesos ($30 million) of the $81 million stolen from Bangladesh foreign reserves at a Philippine casino in...
3/30/2016
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Junket operator fingers two Chinese agents over heisted Bangladeshi millions
(Philippines) -- Philippine officials heard conflicting testimony on Tuesday regarding the origins and current whereabouts of the $81m stolen from Bangladeshi central...
3/29/2016
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Bangladesh Bank cashes out at Philippine casinos
(Philippines) -- A casino junket operator in the Philippines who admitted receiving part of $81 million stolen from money deposited by Bangladesh Bank at the Federal...
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Businessman Denies Planning Bangladesh Central-Bank Heist
(Philippines) -- A central figure in the investigation into how $101 million was stolen from Bangladesh’s central bank denied on Tuesday planning the elaborate...
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Junket operator fingers two Chinese agents over heisted Bangladeshi millions
(Philippines) -- Philippine officials heard conflicting testimony on Tuesday regarding the origins and current whereabouts of the $81m stolen from Bangladeshi central...
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Junket operator spills beans
(Philippines) -- High rollers with the complicity of the Jupiter branch manager of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC) expected and prepared for the inflow of...
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Macau junket named in hearing | Part of stolen Bangladeshi funds still in Philippine casinos
(Philippines) -- Kim Wong Kam Sin, the Philippine gambling junket operator dubbed the “missing link” in the cyber heist of USD81 million in Bangladesh...
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Part of stolen Bangladeshi funds still in Philippine casinos
(Philippines) -- About $7.8 million out of $81 million stolen from Bangladesh's central bank and sent to fake bank accounts in the Philippines remains in local...
3/28/2016
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$81M laundering: PH officials get hold of ‘suspect’ Weikang Xu’s passport
(Philippines) -- Philippine authorities have obtained a copy of the Chinese passport of Weikang Xu — a man believed to have received P600 million and $18 million...
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Casino execs snub Senate on RCBC case
(Philippines) -- EXECUTIVES of the three casinos where the $81 million stolen from Bangladesh was laundered are not likely to show up at the Senate which is...
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Philippine bishops voice alarm over gambling after $81-million heist
(Philippines) -- Catholic bishops in the Philippines expressed alarm on Monday over the spread of government-sanctioned gambling through casinos, after a mid-sized bank...
3/24/2016
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Man named in Bangladesh cyber heist to ‘answer everything’ – lawyer
(Philippines) -- A man who is suspected to have received part of the $81-million stolen from the Bangladesh central bank will reveal all he knows about the heist next...
3/23/2016
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The Mystery of Bangladesh's Missing Millions
(Bangladesh) -- It wasn’t a conventional heist. No masked robbers with guns. No large sacks of cash. In February, someone––or more likely, a group...
3/22/2016
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Employee & Customer Info Stolen at River Cree Resort & Casino
(Edmonton) -- Damage control is being done by officials at an Edmonton-area casino after discovering they were the target of a cyber attack that put customer and...
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Criminal Complaints Filed Against Two in Bangladesh Central Bank Heist
(Philippines) -- The Philippines’ anti-money-laundering agency filed criminal complaints on Tuesday against two businessmen who are allegedly central figures in...
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Kim Wong is back, vows to tell all during Senate hearing
(Philippines) -- Midas Hotel junket casino operator Kim Wong is back in Philippines and is ready to tell all he knows about the $81-million money laundering at the Rizal...
3/21/2016
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NBI asked to find Chinese junket operator
(Philippines) -- SEN. SERGE Osmeña has asked the National Bureau of Investigation to look for a man who was identified as a Chinese junket operator who received more...
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For bank heist hackers, the Philippines was a handy black hole
(Philippines) -- In February 2013, the Philippines was up against a deadline to amend its Anti-Money Laundering Act and get itself off the 'grey list' of a...
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Malware used in $100 million Bangladesh bank heist
(New York) -- Hackers who last month stole more than $100 million from Bangladesh's account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had been remotely monitoring...
3/18/2016
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Alberta casino hit by cyberattack that stole customer and employee information
(Edmonton) -- A cyberattack at the River Cree Resort and Casino in Enoch, Alberta resulted in the theft of customer and employee information. River Cree president Robert...
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River Cree casino hacked, customer information compromised
(Edmonton) -- The River Cree casino says it was the victim of a "cyberattack" earlier this week that resulted in the theft of customer and employee information...
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River Cree customers, staff warned after cyberattack
(Edmonton) -- Officials at the River Cree Resort and Casino are doing damage control after finding out they were the target of a cyberattack that put employee and...
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A Hole in the Global Money-Laundering Defense: Philippine Casinos
(Philippines) -- In 2013, an international anti-money-laundering watchdog warned the Philippines that there was a gaping hole in its defenses against people illegally...
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Bangladesh Bank heist shows weak spots in finance safeguards
(Philippines) -- The laundering through the Philippines of $81 million stolen by hackers from a U.S. Federal Reserve account is adding to pressures on the Southeast...
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Philippine regulator says banks’ “systemic failure” led to casino laundering scanda
(Philippines) -- The Philippines’ top gaming regulator says casinos are open to being included in the country’s anti-money laundering laws but insists this...
3/9/2016
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$1 Billion Plot to Rob Fed Accounts Leads to Manila Casinos
(Philippines) -- Casinos, money laundering and a scheme to steal $1 billion from the Bangladeshi central bank. These are just some of the intriguing elements in a murky...
2/13/2016
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Credit card breach at Golden Nugget Biloxi affects Starbucks, pool bar and buffet customers
(Mississippi) -- A breach discovered in December by Landry's Inc. and Golden Nugget Hotels and Casinos affected some customers who used their credit card at Golden...
1/24/2016
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DDoS attack knocks Irish Lottery site offline
(Ireland) -- The National Lottery of Ireland is the latest operator of gambling activities to be knocked offline after a DDoS attack. DDoS stands for distributed denial...
1/18/2016
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Hacked casino sues cybersecurity firm
(USA) -- A U.S. casino is suing the cybersecurity firm it hired to help handle a data breach in a case that experts say is likely the first of many.
1/16/2016
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Casino Sues Security Firm for Failing to Contain Malware Infection
(USA) -- US casino chain Affinity Games is suing Trustwave Holdings, a cyber-security vendor that was brought in to investigate a card breach but failed to detect and...
12/24/2015
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Why online gaming is the new frontier for cybercrime
(Worldwide) -- There are two lines of thought with criminals and online video games. One is that these connected platforms offer easier opportunities to attack,...
12/22/2015
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At lottery-fixing trial, prosecutor wants Bigfoot kept out
(Iowa) -- Three friends involved in buying tickets and claiming jackpots that were allegedly fixed by a state lottery insider have something else unusual in common,...
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How a security director used a rootkit to rig the lottery and steal millions of dollars
(Iowa) -- Not too long ago, Eddie Tipton was convicted of hacking into the Multi-State Lottery Association’s computer system in order to rig a nearly $17 million...
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Maine gives names of Hot Lotto winners to Iowa team looking into rigging scheme
(Maine) -- The names of Mainers who won cash prizes in the Hot Lotto game between 2010 and 2014 have been forwarded to Iowa officials investigating a burgeoning jackpot...
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Kansas lottery players questioning game’s integrity
(Kansas) -- Lottery lovers are now questioning the integrity of the game after learning that rigged lottery tickets were sold in Kansas. “I’m not sure if I...
12/15/2015
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Akamai says online gambling at ‘significant’ risk from DDoS attacks
(The Internet) -- Technology security firm Akamai has warned that the online gambling industry is the biggest target for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks,...
12/14/2015
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Computer virus targets Rivers Casino
(Pennsylvania) -- The Rivers Casino was the target of a computer virus, but no customer data was compromised, officials at the North Shore casino said Monday. The virus...
12/8/2015
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DDoS attacks hit record peak: Akamai
(Worldwide) -- The latest State of the Internet report from Akamai Technologies has found that DDoS attacks reached peak levels in Q3 2015, with online gaming receiving...
12/1/2015
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Paysafe admits 7.8m accounts hacked in 2009-2010
(UK) -- British mobile payments company Paysafe has come clean about the cyber-attacks it suffered five years ago, admitting that more than seven million accounts were...
11/30/2015
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Gambling Darling Paysafe Confirms 7.8 Million Customers Hit In Epic Old Hacks
(UK) -- Earlier this month, FORBES revealed two databases had been leaked from major gambling payment providers Neteller and Moneybookers (now called Skrill), affecting...
11/11/2015
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The Man Accused of Masterminding the Hacks That Shook Wall Street
(Worldwide) -- Through the dark world of cybercrime, its tentacles spread everywhere: stock manipulation, money laundering, gambling and more. Nothing in the annals of...
11/10/2015
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In Emails, Accused Bank Hackers Brag of Plans and Exploits
(New York) -- As they carried out what federal prosecutors call a "sprawling criminal enterprise" stretching around the globe, with schemes nestled within...
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New indictments against Affactive online casino, Coin.mx Bitcoin operators
(New York) -- More light has been shed on this summer’s arrests of individuals tied to the Affactive and Revenuejet online gambling groups.
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U.S. charges three in huge cyberfraud targeting JPMorgan, others
(New York) -- U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled criminal charges against three men accused of running a sprawling computer hacking and fraud scheme that included a...
11/6/2015
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Four Winds Casino Resort Identifies and Stops Payment Card Incident
(Michigan) -- Four Winds Casino Resort values the relationship it has with its guests and understands the importance of protecting payment card information. On October 2...
10/31/2015
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You Won’t Like These Odds: Online Gambling Sites Becoming Bigtime Targets of DDoS Attacks
(Worldwide) -- Over the last one decade, the online gambling has tripled, ballooning into a $40 billion industry. That seems like a great thing for the people involved...
10/16/2015
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Payment card breach at Peppermill Resort Spa Casino in Reno
(Nevada) -- An undisclosed number of individuals are being notified that an attack may have compromised credit and debit cards used between October 2014 and February...
10/14/2015
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Jackpot: New hacking group steals 150,000 credit cards from casino
(UK) -- Cyber Defence Summit An un-named Casino with next-to-no security has lost 150,000 credit cards after being raided by a new hacking group. Researchers Emmanuel...
10/6/2015
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PartyPoker details stance over third-party software
(Worldwide) -- PartyPoker, the online poker brand operated by bwin.party, has announced that it is to take a number of steps to stop customers from using certain third-...
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Data hack at Trump hotel in Las Vegas, 6 others confirmed
(New York) -- Customer credit and debit card numbers may have been stolen at seven Trump hotels after its payment systems were hacked for over a year.
9/24/2015
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Odlanor Poses Little Risk To Online Poker Players Who Take Proper Precautions
(The Internet) -- There’s been a flurry of recent articles focused on the Odlanor spyware that reportedly targets online poker players. A news release regarding...
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Online gambling sites targeted by DDoS attacks
(The Internet) -- The online gambling industry is big business, estimated to be worth over $40 billion this year. But its success makes it a target for extortion and for...
7/14/2015
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New Jersey Online Gambling Sites Attacked by Hacker
(New Jersey) -- A hacker shut down four New Jersey online gambling sites for 30 minutes and then demanded a ransom—to be paid in Bitcoins—to prevent future...
7/13/2015
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Data Breach at FireKeepers Casino; 85,000 Cards at Risk
(Michigan) -- After two months of investigation, FireKeepers Casino and Hotel in Michigan has confirmed a data breach on their computer systems and payment card...
7/7/2015
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Cyber attack hits N.J. Internet gaming sites
(New Jersey) -- New Jersey’s legal Internet casinos are on heightened alert this week after a coordinated cyber attack against four online gambling sites Thursday, New...
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Hacker Attacks Gambling Websites, Demands Bitcoin Ransom
(New Jersey) -- A hacker shut down four New Jersey Internet gambling sites for half an hour last week and threatened more cyberattacks over the holiday weekend unless a...
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State probing cyber attack on New Jersey gambling sites
(New Jersey) -- Authorities are investigating the source of a cyber attack against four New Jersey Internet gambling sites by a hacker who threatened more of the same...
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Casino says computer system with personal info breached
(Michigan) -- Thousands of gamblers might have been dealt a bad hand at a southwestern Michigan casino. FireKeepers Casino Hotel says someone got access to the computer...
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OP/ED: Times really are changing for casinos
(Delaware) -- A hacker disrupted four Atlantic City casinos’ online gaming sites over the weekend, overwhelmed their security systems, threatened to return soon...
7/6/2015
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Cyber-attack hits N.J. gambling sites
(New Jersey) -- State and federal authorities are investigating a cyber-attack on four of New Jersey's online gaming sites last week by a hacker who promised more...
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New Jersey 's internet casinos hit by cyberattack over the weekend
(New Jersey) -- New Jersey’s legal Internet casinos are on heightened alert Monday after a coordinated cyber attack against four online gambling sites over the...
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FireKeepers Casino officials confirm hacking of their computer system
(Michigan) -- Reports in May said that security staff at FireKeepers Casino near Battle Creek suspected that their system had been hacked. Now casino officials are...
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FireKeepers confirms breach, says about 85,000 cards and other info are at risk
(Michigan) -- Following a May announcement that it was replacing point-of-sale (POS) devices while investigating a potential breach, Michigan-based FireKeepers Casino...
7/5/2015
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FireKeepers Casino Hotel computers hacked
(Michigan) -- The investigation showed someone gained unauthorized access to the casino’s computer system, including its file-storage server.
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Firekeepers Casino: Approx. 85,000 People’s Credit Card Information Hacked
(Michigan) -- Absent from the casino’s release about the incident was information about who’s responsible for the data security breach. An investigation of a...
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