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Daniel Negreanu's email and PokerStars accounts hacked
Daniel Negreanu got a piece of unpleasant news when he returned to the United States from Australia yesterday evening.
According to the Canadian star, an unknown culprit had gained access to his email account, and subsequently used the information to access his
PokerStars account, too.
The news were broken by Negreanu himself via his Twitter with the following words yesterday night:
"Important: Do NOT send me any emails, the account appears to have been hacked. Just landed in LA, nice news," Negreanu wrote.
The incident soon resulted in a thread on TwoPlusTwo, and here it emerged that Negreanu's PokerStars account had seemingly been compromised, too.
Posters pointed to a series of uncharacteristic plays by Negreanu on the online high stakes tables in a stint which ended up with the account losing close to $50,000 in roughly 400 hands.
Negreanu later confirmed that it was indeed someone else playing from the account, and said that he has now been refunded the losses by PokerStars.
"I was on an airplane while this guy was joyriding my Stars account. He hacked me email and I got that back, still figuring out what happened. When I have all the details I'll share when it makes sense to," Negreanu wrote.
There is still no sign of what exactly happened or who was behind the hacking of the account, but the Team PokerStars pro pledges to investigate the case until he finds the answers.
"Working on rectifying the hacking situation. I got my email account back. Now time to find the perpetrator," was the latest update from the Canadian this morning on Twitter.
According to the Canadian star, an unknown culprit had gained access to his email account, and subsequently used the information to access his
PokerStars account, too.The news were broken by Negreanu himself via his Twitter with the following words yesterday night:
"Important: Do NOT send me any emails, the account appears to have been hacked. Just landed in LA, nice news," Negreanu wrote.
The incident soon resulted in a thread on TwoPlusTwo, and here it emerged that Negreanu's PokerStars account had seemingly been compromised, too.
Posters pointed to a series of uncharacteristic plays by Negreanu on the online high stakes tables in a stint which ended up with the account losing close to $50,000 in roughly 400 hands.
Negreanu later confirmed that it was indeed someone else playing from the account, and said that he has now been refunded the losses by PokerStars.
"I was on an airplane while this guy was joyriding my Stars account. He hacked me email and I got that back, still figuring out what happened. When I have all the details I'll share when it makes sense to," Negreanu wrote.
There is still no sign of what exactly happened or who was behind the hacking of the account, but the Team PokerStars pro pledges to investigate the case until he finds the answers.
"Working on rectifying the hacking situation. I got my email account back. Now time to find the perpetrator," was the latest update from the Canadian this morning on Twitter.
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1 year ago
This is unfortunate, i had someone access my facebook from another country once and facebook asked me to change my password because of the weird location not being my country of residence which is india, got that sorted , this kind of hacking can really be a pain in the neck to tackle, anyways its nice to know he was refunded by stars, good gesture on their part.
Probabily wass a romanian hacker,lol .. is sad that happens this things but many people have no dignity and honor.
1183
1 year ago
Yeah even thought you tried to transfering money over another accounts.
If this hacker was good it's a great chance he using a VPN to play with his account to make him located for Canada.
If they can't found him he is super hacker.
There is so many way to hide but it's never impossible to hide 100%.
:D
If this hacker was good it's a great chance he using a VPN to play with his account to make him located for Canada.
If they can't found him he is super hacker.
There is so many way to hide but it's never impossible to hide 100%.
:D
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1 year ago
The refund from pokerstars is generous....who is to say whether the player or the site to be negligent here. Did they get the email going through pokerstars account? or did they get to pokerstars account through his email account? if through his email account then the site should not be blamed.
I also read somewhere that he had used a hotmail email account. Seems strange that he would use the free one instead of one supplied by his internet service provider.
My provider, the biggest in Canada uses windows live which is now part of hotmail but has a different extension. The reason they use live is to allow retrieval of your emails from anywhere in the world.
My provider, the biggest in Canada uses windows live which is now part of hotmail but has a different extension. The reason they use live is to allow retrieval of your emails from anywhere in the world.
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