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Breach of poker players’ privacy and identities

October 30, 2009

identity theftAccording to AustralianGambling.com.au a couple of online companies have breached the law when they crossed players’ privacy. Amongst these companies there are 888, William Hill and Full Tilt Poker. It seems that the player details that has been sold and traded like a commodity.

The above sites have refused to clarify whether their trading of personal details is a breach of law but many sources through the industry have advised that this is definitely a breach of privacy that will reach negative consequences for the companies and their compliance with relevant proper regulations.

It seems that the alleged information was obtained by AustralianGambling.com.au from Ryan Clegg who sells gambling operators’ data. He went on to reveal the full details of the operation, including the name of the person selling the data, who was helping him, the operators involved and what is claimed to be a sample 50 person excel sheet with full player details.

It seems like Ryan Clegg has been selling online gamblers’ identities and other confidential details to the highest bidder for quite some time. The latter commented about this data amounts “It varies to be honest, could be every two weeks, could be a month.” He even added that for $8,000 one could buy the personal details of over 40,000 people, this also including problem gamblers.

This data includes including full names, residential addresses, dates of birth, email addresses and other credit cards and financial information including amounts deposited and lost or won.

1. Name – This included both first and last name
2. Address – Both number and street
3. City
4. Country
5. Email address
6. Telephone number
7. Net loss – The amount the player had won or lost at the casino
8. Deposits – The total of the player’s real money deposits

This info is then sold for an agreed fee to whoever has enough money to purchase it such as the below:

Clegg also went on to reveal who these main offenders are such as “Casino Tropez, Eurogrand, Casinojoy, 888, Intercasino, Spin Palace, 32 Red, William Hill, Europa Casino, Vegas Red, PlatinumPlay, Roxy Palace, they are the main ones. As I mentioned I have Ladbrokes, Betfair and ToteSport but also got William Hill and Coral for betting. I also sell placements on some gambling related sites for a friend of mine. He owns these sites if you know who owns them:”

These include – onlinebingofriends.com; fruitybonus.com; onlinebingoroom.co.uk; comparebingosites.com; latestbingobonus.com; bingoteacher.co.uk; ukbingohall.co.uk; freecardsbingo.com; bingodating.co.uk; bingohoroscopes.com.

Below is Ryan’s email sales pitch indicating selling prices and the relevant offenders ——

Hi Nick, thanks for the chat on messenger earlier.

Ok, as I mentioned we have gambling data targeted to Casino, Poker, Sportsbetting and Bingo.

In the latest batch of casino data we have roughly 40k full records available which include Full name, address, email, telephone number, net loss and total deposits of each player.

All the data is European and comes from various online casinos like Casino Tropez, Eurogrand, Casinojoy, 888, Intercasino, Spin Palace, 32 red, Will Hill, Europa, Vegas Red, Platinumplay and Roxy Palace.

If you wanted to buy all the 40k casino data I would charge you $100 per 1,000 records so the total cost would be $4,000. If you just wanted to buy part of the database the cost per 1,000 would differ depending on how many you wanted to take.

Regarding poker data we have 37k full records available which again include Full name, address, email, telephone number, net loss and total deposits of each player.

All the data is European and comes from various online poker sites like Titan Poker, Poker Ocean, Pacific Poker and Full Tilt Poker.

If you wanted the whole 37k we would be looking at around $80 per 1,000 records so the total cost would be roughly $2,950. If you wanted to buy part of the database the cost per 1,000 would depend on total spend.

With regards to sports betting data, in the latest batch we have roughly 25k available which are mainly UK and are just email addresses.

The betting data as come from sites Ladbrokes, Betfair, Totesport, Will Hill and Coral.

If you wanted the whole 25k I can do you them at $50 per 1,000 as they are just email addresses so the total cost would be $1,250 or again if you just wanted part of the data the cost per 1,000 would all depend on how many you wanted.

Finally, as I mentioned we have around 500 records for bingo which are just Uk email addresses and they come from Foxy, Cheeky and Tombola Bingo.

I would be willing to chuck these in for free on any substantial order.

If you wanted to take all of the above Nick the total cost would be $8,200 but I would be willing to knock that down to $7,000 for you so you would save $1,200.

Let me know what you want to do.
Cheers Nick.

Many Regards
Ryan

At this point we wonder, what other data could be getting sold right now such as credit card details and worse..

Written by Marcus · Filed Under Poker News 

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