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HACKING: Cryptologic's "story" about the hacking of their server stinks badly and is probably not true like many others
Cryptologic said that a hacker had cracked one of the firm's servers, corrupting the playing of craps and video slots so that players couldn't lose. The company said that for a few hours during the disruption in late August, 140 gamblers racked up winnings of $1.9 million.
The games were altered so that every roll of the dice in craps turned up doubles and every spin on the slots generated a perfect match, the company said.
The winners were permitted to keep the money as it is believed they had no hand in the hack attack. Ms. Chan-Palmateer said, "It is likely the intruder was somebody with inside information of our system."
What a lot of crap!
Cryptologic has a pathetic company policy to block and freeze the player's account when anyone wins over $ 5,000
Before the account is unfrozen, and before they pay anything, they check the whole thing, so it is very unlikely that 140 players managed to share $1.9 million because their systems would freeze their account immediately
Players have complained that a frozen account stays that way for days until they finally decide to unfreeze it. The crooks think that winning is abnormal so their first reaction is to freeze your account.
The hacking of their server is probably an insurance job, or it was really hacked by the Russian Mafia or the Bulgarian, they normally hack a company and demand money to show them how to fix their security failures.
Knowing that Cryptologic employs a large percentage or Russian programmers and other Russian technicians, it's not hard to see that one of them sold the information to the Russian Mafia.
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