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Macau junket operators plan to launch central credit database

December 27, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Technology, Data Protection, Macau

The Macau Association Of Gaming And Entertainment Promoters has reportedly established a central database that is capable of tracking the credit issued by local junket operators to individual players. Accord...

Hacker begins publishing hacked Casino Rama data; $50M class action lawsuit may be filed Monday

Lars Jones

November 13, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Canada, Ontario, Data Protection, Canadian Tribal, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation

The Casino Rama Resort in Ontario, Canada announced Thursday that the facility had suffered a data breach that could have compromised information going back as far as 2004. One day later a class action lawyer b...

UK’s ICO lowers the boom on text spamming affiliates

Lars Jones

November 10, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Data Protection, United Kingdom

Certain spam from online gambling affiliates will no longer be tolerated by the UK. Today more than 400 letters went out from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to companies the watchdog agency believe...

Maryland Live sues MGM over stolen VIP client data

Kim M

July 26, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Data Protection, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation, Maryland

MGM Resorts International is being sued by Maryland Live Casino over lists of high-rollers, which were allegedly provided to MGM by several former employees of the Maryland casino, according to The Daily Record...

Point-of-sale breach reported by Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

Sadonna Price

June 29, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Las Vegas, Hacking, Data Protection, Nevada

On Monday, the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino reported that a point-of-sale breach had taken place, with malware having been found within the systems of the resort. The Las Vegas casino began an investigation int...

Scientific Games sues ex-VP over trade secrets potentially bound for IGT

Lars Jones

June 26, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Lottery, Data Protection, Georgia, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation, Nevada

Scientific Games International Inc. (Nasdaq:SGMS) filed suit in Gainseville, Georgia Wednesday asking a federal judge to stop former Sci-Games VP Brian Keith Cash from using information allegedly stolen from th...

Employee & Customer Info Stolen at River Cree Resort & Casino

Kim M

March 22, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Tribal Gaming, Alberta, Hacking, Data Protection

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 employee information at risk. Computer systems at the River...

Casino employee’s luck runs out/nabbed for computer fraud, theft

Kim M

February 22, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Casino News, North America Casino News, Casino Cheating, Gaming Industry News, Data Protection, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation, Financial Fraud, Louisiana

On Friday, an employee of a casino in Louisiana was arrested after allegedly defrauding a Lake Charles area casino. The Golden Nugget Casino in Lake Charles notified the Louisiana State Police Gaming Enforce...

DDoS attack knocks Irish Lottery site offline

Sadonna Price

January 24, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Lottery, Data Protection

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 of service attack and is a way that hackers shut down ...

Authorities say trio netted over $400k in casino conspiracy

Kim M

January 22, 2016

Casino Heists, Casino News, Latest Casino and Gambling News, Tribal Gaming, Casino Cheating, North America Casino News, Gaming Industry News, Data Protection, Conspiracy, Crime, Financial Fraud, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation, Pennsylvania

On Tuesday Mohegan Sun Pocono’s former vice president of player development was charged with conspiring with a frequent gambler and a cocktail server to defraud the Pennsylvania casino out of hundreds of thousa...

Possible multi-state multi-million lottery jackpot scam in U.S.

Kim M

December 21, 2015

Latest Casino and Gambling News, North America Casino News, Colorado, Data Protection, Lottery, Oklahoma, Wisconsin

The continuing investigation of multiple jackpots in multiple states being awarded fraudulently and the US lottery industry fears consumers are losing confidence. In September a MultiState Lottery Associatio...

Computer virus hits Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh

Lars Jones

December 15, 2015

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Hacking, Data Protection, Pennsylvania

Officials at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh say that although the enterprise was hit by a computer virus, none of their customers' personal information was compromised. A spokesperson said that no games were affec...

Paysafe confirms over 7 million Neteller, Skrill accounts breached 2009-2010

Lars Jones

December 1, 2015

Latest Casino and Gambling News, World Casino News, Hacking, Data Protection, Online Gambling News

More than 7 million Neteller and Skrill (Moneybookers) customer accounts were hacked in 2009 and 2010 according to a statement released by the London Stock Exchange on November 30. Paysafe, formerly known as Op...

UK Judge sentences teen to 12 months in prison for DDOS attack on online gambling website

Renee Kingsley

November 24, 2015

European Casino News, Data Protection, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation, United Kingdom

Online gambling websites invest millions of dollars to implement the latest in online security attacks to prevent them from cyber attacks. Max Whitehouse, a teenager in the United Kingdom found it all too easy ...

Three charged in largest bank breach in history

Lars Jones

November 10, 2015

Israel, Latest Casino and Gambling News, Hacking, Money Laundering, Data Protection, Unlicensed Operation, Online Gambling News, Conspiracy, Financial Fraud, Russia, New York

Two men being held in Israel after their arrests in July, and a U.S. citizen believed to be hiding out in Moscow have been charged with stealing the contact details of up to 100 million customers of banking gia...

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Macau junket operators plan to launch central credit database

Hacker begins publishing hacked Casino Rama data; $50M class action lawsuit may be filed Monday

UK’s ICO lowers the boom on text spamming affiliates

Maryland Live sues MGM over stolen VIP client data

Point-of-sale breach reported by Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

Scientific Games sues ex-VP over trade secrets potentially bound for IGT

Employee & Customer Info Stolen at River Cree Resort & Casino

Casino employee’s luck runs out/nabbed for computer fraud, theft

DDoS attack knocks Irish Lottery site offline

Authorities say trio netted over $400k in casino conspiracy

Possible multi-state multi-million lottery jackpot scam in U.S.

Computer virus hits Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh

Paysafe confirms over 7 million Neteller, Skrill accounts breached 2009-2010

UK Judge sentences teen to 12 months in prison for DDOS attack on online gambling website

Three charged in largest bank breach in history

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