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Crooks Exploited Satellite Live Feed Delay for Betting Advantage

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By Deeba Ahmed
The gang used satellite technology to get sports feed and predict match results before bookmakers.
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Online Casinos DraftKings and BetMGM Hacked; Data of Millions at Risk

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By Waqas
In BetMGM’s case, hackers are selling data of 1.57 million customers, while data of 68,000 DraftKings customers is also up for grabs.
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Calling World Cup Goals Before They Happen, By Polling a Betting Site

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[Ben] made an interesting discovery during the FIFA World Cup in 2018, and used it to grant himself the power to call goals before they happened. Well, before they happened on live TV or live streaming, anyway. It was possible because of the broadcast delay on “live” broadcasts, combined with the sports betting industry’s need for timely and detailed game state tracking.

He discovered that a company named Running Ball provides fairly detailed game statistics in digital form, which are generated from inside the stadium as events occur. An obvious consumer of this data are sports betting services, and [Ben] …read more

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Online Betting Site Left Employees’ Logins and Passwords Open to Hackers

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The British betting site BetVictor allegedly left several administrative logins and passwords exposed through a search feature on its site, potentially allowing hackers to break into its internal systems. Continue reading Online Betting Site Left Employees’ Logins and Passwords Open to Hackers→