It has recently come to public knowledge that sensitive player information has been leaked from Ultimate Bet (UB) and Absolute Poker (AP). The information is believed to have player balances, adresses, names, etc. It’s too early to understand how much has been released and what effects this could have on players from the above sites, as it’s early days yet. Early reports suggest no passwords, credit cards or bank account information have been released but i would suggest to all that read this article to be very vigilant regarding their bank accounts and anything that may seem strange to report it as soon as possible.

 

To read this full article in full, please read my copy and paste below from David Michael Barnwell from Poker.org.

 

A large amount of personal data about UB Poker players was leaked this weekend and posted publicly online. The leaked data contained information about names, e-mail addresses, account balances and more from roughly 3.5 million UB accounts.

Large amounts of personal data from UB Poker player accounts were leaked on the internet this weekend.
The leaked data included information from some 3.5 million accounts, and does not include information from accounts from UB Poker’s sister site, Absolute poker. The data set contained names, screen names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, mailing addresses, account balances, IP addresses, deposit methods, birth date, account number, VIP status, affiliate statuses, and blacklist statuses of what appears to be all account holders on the site.
The data did not contain account passwords, credit card numbers or bank account information.
The link to the available information was posted on TwoPlusTwo, but was removed almost immediately.
However, a few individuals were able to download the data file, and the information was since passed around privately.
Subject: Poker claims to have been able to confirm the accuracy of the leaked information by checking up on the authors’ own information and verifying this as correct.
The data file, which has now been removed from the download site, included information from two million US accounts, 319,000 Canadian accounts, 137,000 UK accounts, and around one million accounts from other countries.
It remains unclear who leaked the information and why.

 

Thanks again to David from Poker.org for sharing this information and making us aware of this. For any further updates and stories please check his blog out.

 

Thanks for reading and good luck out there guys!