Player data leaked from Ultimate Bet
All of poker site's players believed to be affected by security breach, with contact details and IP addresses among the data posted online.
A significant amount of player data has been leaked from poker site Ultimate Bet, including contact details, deposit methods, IP addresses and account balances.
An anonymous poster put a link to the stories on the Two Plus Two Poker forums, before removing the link eight minutes later. The data has been broken down by territory, with around 2 million US accounts; 319,000 Canadian; 137,000 UK and around 1 million player accounts from other countries, suggesting that almost all of Ultimate Bet’s players are affected.
Poker blog site Subject: Poker, who reported the leak, has verified the accuracy of the data, though reveal that a lot of the data, while accurate, is now outdated.
Players on Absolute Poker, Ultimate Bet’s sister site, are not thought to be affected by the security breach.