[sheshbeshon]

IT IS A BRUTE FORCE ATTACK EVEN IF HE NERROWED DOWN TO 1000 possibilites.

it is still brute force !

the guy did not know greg before that personally. so it had to take him a few 10's of guesses ? maybe a couple of hundrads ?

still - pokerstars should have known about it.

second - if it was that easy ? why pokestars did not comment on that incident ?

I have broken way way way to many passwords in my lifetime to know what is an "easy to guess" password looks like .