We win (AP Scandal v. 27)

[jhill3535]

http://www.gambling911.com/Absolute-Poker-101907.html
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Absolute Poker Admits "Internal Breach"
Absolute Poker on Friday morning admitted an "internal breach" following accusations from the online poker community that a company "employee" had been able to see other players whole cards.

An official from the company admitted the breach and that Absolute had only uncovered who the culprit was Thursday afternoon.

"Players who were affected by this unfortunately situation will be paid in full," the official told Gambling911.com. "Furthermore, a third party investigation has already gotten underway and we will be inviting anyone from the online poker community who wants to take part in this investigation as a means of ensuring how committed we are to getting this matter resolved."

No management personnel were involved in this incident, the company official relayed.

"The person in question knew the internal system at Absolute Poker intimately. We want to ensure everybody that no person can hack into our system from the outside."

Absolute Poker is working diligently to have this matter resolved.

"We need to prove to the online poker community that this can never happen again," the official said.

A company statement sent out to the public was expected by late afternoon Friday.

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Christopher Costigan, Gambling911.com Publisher

Originally published October 19, 2007 10:59 am ET

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[HatesLosing]

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A company statement sent out to the public was expected by late afternoon Friday.


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So I guess AP uses Pony Express to send out their statements?

It still doesn't make sense that AP was not aware of this problem a long time ago. If they were, then they were in some sense "in on it", and if they really weren't aware of it, then all I can say is: WORST SECURITY TEAM EVER!

Edit: A single person who knows how to use Poker Tracker that is a part-time employee in charge of security would have noticed this a long time ago. As it stands, they probably would have NEVER noticed it (or covered it up?) had it not been pointed out to them.

[Cruzincat]

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A company statement sent out to the public was expected by late afternoon Friday.


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So I guess AP uses Pony Express to send out their statements?

It still doesn't make sense that AP was not aware of this problem a long time ago. If they were, then they were in some sense "in on it", and if they really weren't aware of it, then all I can say is: WORST SECURITY TEAM EVER!

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In a previous post someone identified "Brent" as the VP of security. Go from there.

[xManiaCx]

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A company statement sent out to the public was expected by late afternoon Friday.


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So I guess AP uses Pony Express to send out their statements?

It still doesn't make sense that AP was not aware of this problem a long time ago. If they were, then they were in some sense "in on it", and if they really weren't aware of it, then all I can say is: WORST SECURITY TEAM EVER!

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In a previous post someone identified "Brent" as the VP of security. Go from there.

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If I remember correctly, this is true. DanDruff had a phone conversation with Brent, VP manager of security.

[CroMagnon]

What is the date of the first instance if suspected cheating that we are aware of?

Cro

[mntbikr15]

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What is the date of the first instance if suspected cheating that we are aware of?

Cro

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There was talk back at the beg of after the 8.0 update. (mid august maybe?)

Players steamroller and greycat were around before, but the play was DRASTICALLY different after the update...they started to play quite strangely and won huge amounts. Cant find the links now of the PT screenshots, but they are out there.

[HatesLosing]

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What is the date of the first instance if suspected cheating that we are aware of?

Cro

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There was talk back at the beg of after the 8.0 update. (mid august maybe?)

Players steamroller and greycat were around before, but the play was DRASTICALLY different after the update...they started to play quite strangely and won huge amounts. Cant find the links now of the PT screenshots, but they are out there.

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Initially people thought the update had something to do with it, but recently I've heard people saying that there was blatant cheating going on just prior to the update fwiw.

[GaryTheGoat]

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What is the date of the first instance if suspected cheating that we are aware of?

Cro

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Grunch I Guess

wtf stranger...you Absolutely need this info for your statement?

2/15/2006 and possibly earlier.

gg

[BrianBigNFun]

thanks for spoiling the Die Hard 4 plot guys, it isnt even out on dvd yet....

[CroMagnon]

Was curious how long it had been going on under AP's nose. the longer it's been going on the more it stinks, eh?

Cro