Every poker player out there has heard of the online poker site Ultimate Bet. The site was surrounded by scandal, and eventually was done in after Black Friday. While the bulk of the attention went towards Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars, Ultimate Bet wasn’t far behind in terms of a scandal. While Full Tilt and Stars owed their players quite a bit of money, Ultimate Bet owed money as well, but at this point players have essentially given up on any chances of getting that money back. Once Black Friday had come and gone, players on UB had hoped that this was the end of the bad news. Unfortunately it hasn’t come to an end just yet, as their was recently a new scandal that has come out of the wood works about the site.
It seems that someone went on to the large poker forum Two Plus Two, and released a large amount of personal data that related to different players’ accounts on Ultimate Bet. The data was deleted with the post around 8 minutes after all was said and done, but players who clicked the link could get all of the information and store it to their computer within that time frame. The list of things included that were given as far as personal information were things such as their Ultimate Bet screen name, full name, email address, mailing address, phone number, account balance, IP address, deposit methods used on the site, birth date, account number on Ultimate Bet (not bank accounts or credit cards), VIP status, affiliate status, and blacklist status.
It’s obviously very fortunate that this information did not include any type of bank account or credit/debit card number, and also that there were no social security numbers listed. If this information was given it could cause some serious issues, and you can bet that the scandal would be quite a bit worse than it is right now.
Ultimate Bet has faltered quite a bit, and is actually pretty fortunate that the scandal around Full Tilt Poker has overshadowed their site. The total list of accounts and information that were released topped 3.5 million, and over 2 million of those accounts came from the United States.