Poker Fuse – The website for the World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League (WPTAPL) has been hacked according to a report by CyberWarNews.
An online hacker using the Twitter account @smitt3nz posted 175,333 email addresses and plain text passwords to a web site on Friday.
The site does not offer real money online gaming and no funds are thought to be at risk; however, users are encouraged to change their passwords on that site and any other site they may have used the same password.
The leak includes unverified login details with a variety of government email suffixes including dhs.gov (Department of Homeland Security), uscourts.gov (United States Courts), nasa.gov (NASA), irs.gov (Internal Revenue Service), army.mil, navy.mil, usmc.mil (United States Marines), af.mil (Air Force) and usdoj.gov (United States Department of Justice).
The WPT sanctioned site is the hub for a series of free live events across the US, Canada and the UK. The organization brings recreational players together in various venues across North America and the the UK to learn the game and test their skills
Of the 175,333 accounts exposed 46,901 all have the same password, which is thought to be the “default reset password.”
A representative of the WPT was not available for comment.
The WPTAPL website does embed the Authorize.net emblem which promises to provide “its merchant customers with the highest level of transaction processing security, safeguarding customer information and combating fraud.”
The hacker also posted the following message above the long list of compromised emails:
“175,333 unencrypted password’s…when will people learn?”
