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Online Casinos in general: Hacker attack on Merkur Bets (Page 12)

Topic created on 14th Mar. 2025 | Page: 12 of 22 | Answers: 319 | Views: 25,216
BlackMass
Visitor

Hacker attack on Merkur Bets

19th Mar. 2025, at 11:58 pm CET#166
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danny005 wrote on 19.03.2025 at 23:13

I just got an email like this and I haven't been on the Jokerstar site for ages.

Same

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BigAl87
Experienced

Hacker attack on Merkur Bets

20th Mar. 2025, at 12:21 am CET#167
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I find this email frightening. Just because nothing has happened so far (at least nothing that can be proven) doesn't mean that anything can happen....we don't know who else got hold of the data apart from the white hat hacker. At this point in time, the "Merkur Group" cannot give any assurances that someone else may have obtained the data set. And not to put the whole thing into perspective - "OUR DATA MUST NOT BE AVAILABLE ON THE NET FOR ANYONE" regardless of whether anyone had access at all. Even the possibility that it is accessible to other people .....is PUNISHABLE.
Down with the Gauselmann scum....sue the sh*t out of them. I'm definitely joining the class action.

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Kapykapy
Amateur

Hacker attack on Merkur Bets

20th Mar. 2025, at 12:22 am CET#168
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Me too, about data being secure. It was the best advertising for interested parties. Off to the front with the fud.

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Speedy197
Visitor

Hacker attack on Merkur Bets

20th Mar. 2025, at 12:44 am CET#169
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and off we go

I received an email from Jokerstar asking me to reset my password

i blocked myself over a year ago in Germany
and have not been on the site for ages

i found 3 different emails in the source code, unfortunately no delivery possible on all of them

maybe others have the same problem

so from me
watch out is starting slowly
because they have to do something 😃

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Speedy197
Visitor

Hacker attack on Merkur Bets

20th Mar. 2025, at 12:45 am CET#170
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WithoutWings wrote on 19.03.2025 at 20:53: Creepy that someone apparently wanted to reset my password at Jokerstar, the mail just came in... it wasn't me anyway.

yes for me too

am even blocked there 😃

and unfortunately I can't answer the hackers either 😃

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frapi07
Elite

Hacker attack on Merkur Bets

20th Mar. 2025, at 07:54 am CET#171
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Speedy197 wrote on 20.03.2025 00:45:

yes for me too

am even blocked there 😃

and unfortunately I can't answer the hackers either 😃

I wouldn't do that either. Due to the frequency, it can be assumed that it is a phishing email. If you reply to this email or click on links and then enter your details, you are sharing this information with strangers. They could then log into your account and gamble away money (the most harmless thing). But what would be even worse: they would then try 100% to get in somewhere else (as many people always use the same password). They have your email + password.

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Maja80
Experienced

Hacker attack on Merkur Bets

20th Mar. 2025, at 08:14 am CET#172
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I also received the email from Jokerstar. I had my account deleted there over a year ago.

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Zockerbernd
Amateur

Hacker attack on Merkur Bets

20th Mar. 2025, at 08:31 am CET#173
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Got the email from Jokerstar tonight too, but the Live Chat just said it was a system error on their end and not an attempted external access.

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moralischverwerflich
Expert

Hacker attack on Merkur Bets

20th Mar. 2025, at 09:16 am CET#174
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Zockerbernd wrote on 20.03.2025 at 08:31: Got the email from Jokerstar tonight too, but the Live Chat just said it was a system error on their end and not an attempted external access.

Of course they say that. They're not going to trip themselves up and admit that it's most likely an attack.

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bigbig
Experienced

Hacker attack on Merkur Bets

20th Mar. 2025, at 09:17 am CET#175
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Speedy197 wrote on 20.03.2025 at 00:44: and here we go

Got an email from Jokerstar I want to reset my password

i blocked myself over a year ago in Germany
and have not been on the site for ages

i found 3 different emails in the source code, unfortunately no delivery possible on all of them

maybe others have the same problem

so from me
watch out is starting slowly
because they have to do something 😃

I also got the e-mail yesterday and had the account closed there a good six months ago 🫣

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XXLEONIDASXX
Top Member

Hacker attack on Merkur Bets

20th Mar. 2025, at 09:44 am CET#176
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Speedy197 wrote on 20.03.2025 at 00:44: and here we go

Got an email from Jokerstar I want to reset my password

i blocked myself over a year ago in Germany
and have not been on the site for ages

i found 3 different emails in the source code, unfortunately no delivery possible on all of them

maybe others have the same problem

so from me
watch out is starting slowly
because they have to do something 😃

That's exactly what I had with my email inbox...I had to completely re-verify everything because it was blocked for security reasons. I also had a lot of strange email senders in the source code that could not be delivered.


According to slotmagie's email, this has nothing to do with...It's strange that other users are suddenly experiencing this too.

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Danny0815
Visitor

Hacker attack on Merkur Bets

20th Mar. 2025, at 09:48 am CET#177
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bigbig wrote on 20.03.2025 09:17:

I also got the email yesterday and had the account closed there a good half year ago.🫣

I don't know how this is legally regulated, but shouldn't the personal data, including contact details, also be deleted when an account is closed? Or only after a certain period of time (6 years in the case of banks?)?

Questions upon questions...

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Donnie
Elite

Hacker attack on Merkur Bets

20th Mar. 2025, at 10:06 am CET#178
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Danny0815 wrote on 20.03.2025 09:48:

I don't know how this is legally regulated, but shouldn't the personal data, including contact details, also be deleted when an account is closed? Or only after a certain period of time (6 years for banks?)?

Questions upon questions...

Remains. I seem to remember when I closed my NetBet account that the supporter said something about 7 years. I think it will be around 5/6-10 years

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Zockerbernd
Amateur

Hacker attack on Merkur Bets

20th Mar. 2025, at 10:16 am CET#179
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morallyreprehensible wrote on 20.03.2025 09:16:

Of course they say that. They don't trip themselves up and directly admit that it's most likely an attack.

Well, I have by far more interesting accounts running on the email that was hacked at SlotMagie and so far there have been no access attempts anywhere except Jokerstar and many have gotten that as can be read here, I don't think it's related to the hacked database and I'm probably the last person here who would defend Merkur. Then I would have tried other things besides Jokerstar

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P3anut
Rookie

Hacker attack on Merkur Bets

20th Mar. 2025, at 10:53 am CET#180
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I don't know about you, but I'm already feeling the effects of the "data breach".... I am receiving an email at regular short intervals telling me to change my password. I'm not active anywhere at the moment, let alone logged in. After the first change, I receive the next request by email 5 minutes later with the same content. At the moment it "only" affects jokerstar.de. Who knows what else is coming 🙈 I can only recommend that you use "suggested" passwords. I also strongly advise against using the same passwords in other casinos.

Anyone who receives or has received something similar, please let me know...

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