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Hackers broke into poker pro's hotel room to install 'sharking' malware
This September, on the Barcelona leg of the European Poker Tour, Jens Kyllönen had a strange run-in with the criminal underworld. He'd busted out of that day's tournament early, but when he...
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You gotta give it to them though, that is really creative.
I've played online poker before but for micro stakes, and I can tell you that if they got away with it, they could have gotten him for A LOT of money. They could call down all his bluffs and know when to bluff him. He wouldn't even know what hit him until he lost a significant amount of money.
Hacking a computer sure, but how in the world did they manage to change the room key?
I remember reading that the door locks have a USB 2.0 port and that the passwords are in plaintext
Someone on the inside.
This would make a cool movie plot.
makes you wonder how many times something like this has happened and not just in poker