World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League website admits to security breach

A short while ago a hacker employing twitter take care of “@smitt3nz” hacked into the Globe Poker Tour Newbie Poker League(WPTAPL) web-site and leaked a databases that contains e-mail addresses,clear-textual content passwords of far more than 170k end users.

WPTAPL Officers have now verified the protection breach to SC Journal.  Even so, they are attempting to downplay the effects of the breach.

Kurt McPhail, president and CEO of WPTAPL claimed the leaked information are really a lot worthless and most of the compromised facts was old.

They also claimed that only 50k of leaked accounts are continue to active and information are not able to even be applied to log into their web site mainly because gamers use unique individual username to log in.

I are unable to agree with their point that the leaked data are worthless.  The stated electronic mail ids and passwords might not allow attackers to log in the WPTAPL.  But, most of men and women usually use the identical password for their electronic mail ID.  An attacker can use the facts to compromise the electronic mail account.

 The vulnerability in concern is reportedly becoming fixed and members are remaining notified about the breach.