Flutter Entertainment has confirmed a significant data breach affecting customers of its Paddy Power and Betfair brands. The breach, which came to light on July 8, revealed that personal information such as usernames, email addresses, and parts of customers’ home addresses had been exposed. While not all users were impacted, a substantial portion of their customer base was affected by the breach. In addition to personal details, technical data, including device identifiers, IP addresses, and some activity logs, were also compromised. However, Flutter assured its customers […]

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Sky Betting & Gaming has come under scrutiny after unlawfully sharing customer data with advertising companies, leading to a formal reprimand (pdf) by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). This reprimand stems from the company’s use of advertising cookies that processed users’ personal data without obtaining proper consent, exposing them to personalized marketing campaigns. The ICO’s action follows an investigation into Bonne Terre Ltd., trading as Sky Betting & Gaming, which was prompted by a complaint from the campaign group […]

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Maltese investments firm, Wide Rich Global Company, is hoping to bring in up to $1 billion via a virtual currency initial coin offering (ICO) in order to establish the planet’s first blockchain-based casino gaming club in Macau. Involves purchase of DeClub International Company Limited: According to reports from the Macau News Agency and CalvinAyre.com, Wide Rich Global Company stated that it hopes the fundraising campaign will allow it to purchase Macau-headquartered professional mass-gaming membership management services provider DeClub International Company […]

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Wild Crypto (SYMBOL: WILD) have developed a lottery and eGaming platform on the Ethereum blockchain and have announced a new coin, much like Bitcoin, they intend to use to fuel the technology’s completion and deployment. These coins will not be available until September 5th when they plan to offer them in a similar fashion to an initial public offering of stock. The company plans to raise 15,000 Ether tokens, the cryptocurrency that resides and trades on the Ethereum blockchain – […]

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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 believes are improperly spamming customers via SMS text messages. Affiliates angered enough people with unsolicited gambling advertisements that many complained, forcing the ICO to act on those complaints as well as relying on intelligence from other sources for their investigation. The issue at hand is the improper handling of […]

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