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Online Casinos in general: Hacker attack on Merkur Bets (Page 23)

Topic created on 14th Mar. 2025 | Page: 23 of 23 | Answers: 332 | Views: 26,903
R3hab
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The data was never for sale, was it?
Think about what all those contacts are worth to operators of casinos abroad
If they were in their hands now
I'm pretty sure there would be big fines, not easy to get out of, but that's the way it is.
A few are filing a lawsuit to get money but that won't work

The hacker should have ripped off Merkur properly, now they're ripping us off again hahaha

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frapi07
Elite

R3hab wrote on 25.04.2025 at 13:12: The data was never for sale, was it?
Think about what all those contacts are worth to operators of casinos abroad
If they were in their hands now
I'm pretty sure there would be fat penalties, not easy to get out but so.
A few are filing a lawsuit to get money but that won't work

The hacker should have ripped off Merkur properly, now they're ripping us off again hahaha

That's right, the data was not for sale. There are strict rules for that.

I don't know if the data is that valuable for foreign casinos. Different laws apply than here. The data cannot be used simply because of the max bet or the Deposit limit. Due to the various parameters, a customer analysis does not make sense. Incidentally, a customer analysis was carried out by the hacker, who certainly did not have the consent of the company or the customers.


For criminals, on the other hand, the data is extremely valuable. They can do a lot with sensitive data. ID photos, e-mail address, telephone number, first and last name, bank information (IBAN) have been lost.

I don't know if you have read through all the pages, but there is already a company that is going to bring a class action (protectra). You pay nothing except a commission (if successful). I would only sue under certain conditions.

If encrypted data had been taken here, it would be easier to get out of it. But the data had no security and was encrypted. I don't know whether it's really easy to talk your way out of this. There really is gross negligence here - almost intent. We're not talking about a start-up here, but about a company worth billions.

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R3hab
Elite
Exactly we are talking about companies with infinite resources whose lawyers are certainly not the correct ones but the worst ones

I believe that casinos would pay a lot of money to get the customer contacts

Credit card data is important for criminals
But the contacts of the addicts are worth much more, because they can always pull off again

We'll see, I mean it's going nowhere, like puf paf it was nothing hehe😂

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