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Hackers Breach PokerStars Security

In absolutely shocking news, the world’s most popular online poker room, PokerStars, has been hacked. There has been e-mails sent out by the PokerStars security team informing certain players about a security breach on their poker account. There have been multiple players that have receive this e-mail and PokerStars has yet to bring forth any more information. We are unsure if these are just isolated incidents or if there could be a potential problem network wide through PokerStars Player. There will hopefully be more information coming soon, but in the meantime this is the e-mail that was sent to at least two members of the Felt Poker Forums.

Hello,

Greetings from PokerStars.

This email is to inform you, your account has been momentarily frozen due
to security reasons. Wee are just trying to confirm everything is okay
with it.

As part of the investigation, I need to ask you if, by any chance you
belong or have received assistance (received a file or attachment) from a
digital forum where people help each other with technical/computer
problems? If so, please let me know the names or usernames of the persons
you know from this site.

Also for our records we would appreciate if, you let us know if, you know
or have received assistances from: ThirstyCa318 or MainMan Andy.
Before, I let you go, I need to ask you for confirmation of the following
things:

a) Please run the Antivirus in your computer and search for any type of
virus or spyware. We have the suspicious your computer(s) can be infected
by a key logger. That is why need to know your computer is clear from
threats.

b) Please change your email password information and any other password
from any online company that you use, in which you can access valuable
private information, your entire personal information could be compromised.

c) Please send us a clear photocopy of a government issued photo ID (front
and back).

Please scan the requested documentation and send to
security@pokerstars.com or fax to:
PokerStars
Attn: Security Department
Fax: 1-800-631-9050 - Toll free for US & Canada
+506-2295-6860 - All other countries

** Write your username on all the pages if sending by fax.

I will be looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Best Regards,

Roberta C
PokerStars Security

PokerStars has been known for their tight security up until now. Hopefully their security team was fast enough to catch this problem before anything becomes of it.

This is a pretty big blow to the poker industry after the recent Ultimate Bet Cheating and Absolute Poker Scandal. This isn’t anywhere near the magnitude or severity of those issues, but is still quite scary. Hopefully everything turns out well for both PokerStars and especially all the players involved in this situation.

RidgeGaming and PokerNewsTeam will both be covering any following information from this security issue. If you’ve heard anything or what to chime in with your opinions, make sure you leave a comment below.

RidgeGaming still believes PokerStars is a safe site to play at, but you should always be careful of files you download off the internet and keep an anti-virus. If you feel like playing at a different site though, Aced Poker is a great site and they are offering a really nice Aced Poker Rakeback deal right now.

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