Of All The Days For 5dimes to be down!!!!

[CiscoKid]

Man,

The 5dimes website was down for a long time yesterday right in the middle of the tourney and now thy are down this morning again.

I hope the problems are resolved by noon

The CiscoKid

[CiscoKid]

5dimes claims that thier servers were hit by a hacker and then the guy said the strangest thing, he said

"We are trying to fix the problem or negotiate with the hacker"

WTF does that mean

You can still call in your wager

Has anyone else heard about this?

The CiscoKid

[The Judge]

Yeah, it has happened to other books in the past. A hacker breaks into their system and holds it for ransom. If they don't pay up, he locks them down and they lose tons of action on one of the biggest gambling days of the year.

They have a backdoor site that I believe is still up: www.propbet.com

[CiscoKid]

Nice

Wow, so does that mean I could lose the money in my account, or it just prevents placing online wagers?

Man, this is not good.

The CiscoKid

[The Judge]

Cisco, I have not heard of these hack attacks leading to lost funds as the players' monies are on deposit in a bank. This kind of thing simply means that they have taken control of the server and are blocking access by the book's customers.

Did the other link work for you?

[robertg]

Originally Posted by The Judge

Yeah, it has happened to other books in the past. A hacker breaks into their system and holds it for ransom. If they don't pay up, he locks them down and they lose tons of action on one of the biggest gambling days of the year.

They have a backdoor site that I believe is still up: www.propbet.com

Judge,
you do have a lot of helpfull knowledge about nearly everygthing sports wagering!

Are you sure you don't have sizable investments in costa rica, lol.

[Romanowski]

russian mafia hackers

[uva3021]

Originally Posted by Romanowski

russian mafia hackers

damn rmh

[Dr. Jack]

A few years ago this was happening to many of the books. I remember mvp getting hit

Here is an article from 2 years ago

USA TODAY.com
By Jon Swartz
Tuesday, March 09, 2005

Online gambling sites are betting on tighter security after a recent wave of computer attacks from cyberextortionists plunged several into darkness.

Shadowy hackers demand $20,000 to $50,000 for protection from distributed denial-of-service attacks, which flood a Web site with data so that it is overloaded.

BetWWTS.com in Antigua was forced to pay $30,000 when hackers shuttered its site and thousands of its customers couldn't place wagers worth an estimated $5 million, CEO Simon Noble says.

It's one of the lucky ones. Since the attacks started a few months ago, a handful of smaller operations have gone out of business or abandoned Web sites in favor of phones to avoid the problem.

"These sites rely on transactions with clients every few seconds. You disrupt that, and you've got major problems," says Michael Caselli, editor of Online Casino News. "A bank, by comparison, can shut down its site for an hour or two."

Now, online gambling operators are bracing for a new batch of threats for college basketball's March Madness tournament, which starts next week.

Online gambling sites are fertile territory for extortionists. Many of the approximately 2,000 sites are vulnerable to hacking attacks and have little legal recourse because Internet gambling is illegal in the USA, security experts say.

Great Britain's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit, which is investigating cases with other law-enforcement agencies, says the problem appears to be confined to gaming sites. But some security experts fear it could spread to banking and other industries that are reluctant to report computer breaches.

The FBI had no comment.

International gambling sites raked in $5.7 billion last year, with projections of $11.6 billion in 2006, says Christiansen Capital Advisors, a New York consulting firm that studies the gaming industry.

Gangs of computer crooks allegedly operating out of Eastern Europe have collected protection money from 10% to 15% of the companies they have threatened, says DK Matai, executive chairman of security company MI2G.

Most issue ultimatums in e-mail messages in the days leading to major sporting events, such as the Super Bowl. Often, threats are issued after an attack, demanding that American currency be sent to a Western Union office.

Bodog Sportsbook, Casino and Poker in Costa Rica was forced to pay more than $20,000 last fall when hackers immobilized its site, says Rob Gillespie.

Since then, it has fortified its site with security products from Riverhead Networks and other tech firms. It withstood a hack attack during Super Bowl weekend.

"You want to yell an obscenity at your PC screen when you get an e-mail threat," Noble says. "These guys are dangerous."

[Dr. Jack]

Update on Sportsbook Extortion Arrests
Posted on: August 6th, 2004

The hackers that targeted Wagerstreet face 15 years in prison and will not be extradited from Russia according to this article on the sportsbook extortion case.

Three men suspected of masterminding a cyber-extortion racket targeting online sportsbooks were arrested last month in a joint operation between the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit and its counterparts in the Russian Federation. The trio, who investigators allege netted hundreds of thousands of pounds from the shakedowns of Bookmakers, were picked up in a series of raids both in St Petersburg, and in the Saratov and Stavropol regions in southwest Russia. A spokeswoman for the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit said today that it was leaving the prosecution in the hands of the Russians.


Leave it the Russians, say UK cybercops
By John Leyden → More by this author
Published Wednesday 4th August 2004 15:07 GMT
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UK authorities have no plans to seek the extradition of alleged members of a Russian cyber extortion gang suspected of launching series of debilitating attacks that cost British Bookmakers tens of millions in lost revenues.

Three men suspected of masterminding a cyber-extortion racket targeting online bookies were arrested last month in a joint operation between the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit and its counterparts in the Russian Federation. The trio, who investigators reckon netted hundreds of thousands of pounds from the shakedowns, were picked up in a series of raids both in St Petersburg, and in the Saratov and Stavropol regions in southwest Russia. A spokeswoman for the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit told El Reg today that it was leaving the prosecution in the hands of the Russians.

The alleged cyber-extortions took place following distributed denial of service attacks directed against the websites of many online bookies. These attacks bombarded bookies' servers with a tidal wave of spurious and malicious traffic, effectively shutting down their online operations. Russia's Interior Ministry said that gang had also launched attacks on unidentified British banks.

At a press conference in Moscow last week, Russian officials gave further details about the gangs' alleged activities, but did not name suspects or confirm the identity of their victims. Under Russia's penal code, the suspects could face up to 15 years imprisonment if convicted of extortion.

[sportsfan]

That sucks for them, Russian prisons aren't too fun I hear.