September 27, 2018
Reports are surfacing that last weekend the French online poker provider Winamax saw its tournament activities severely disrupted by a DDoS attack from presently undisclosed hackers. The attack follows similar experiences in recent months that have seen leading online poker providers targeted (see previous InfoPowa reports). In an apology to players, Winamax management assured that […]
September 12, 2018
Online poker provider 888Poker has confirmed that since September 5 it has been the target of DDoS attacks similar to those experienced late last month by Winning Poker Network, PokerStars and PartyPoker (see previous reports). The attacks disrupted operations last weekend, prompting the company to issue a statement which advised: “As many of you may […]
August 13, 2018
Recent posts on Twitter have indicated that Americas Cardroom was not the only online poker site attacked by DDoS hackers this week (see previous report). Very little detail is currently available but it appears that: On August 9 PartyPoker advised players: “Apologies for the technical difficulties, we are working to rectify, the site has been […]
August 9, 2018
Americas Cardroom, in the past a frequent target for Distributed Denial of Service attacks (see previous reports), was targeted again this week by unknown parties, causing it to suspend an ongoing series of online tournaments. The attacks, which were successfully repulsed, took place on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday night, with cardroom management subsequently advising players: […]
May 1, 2018
Americas Cardroom (ACR) on the Winning Poker Network is the victim of severe Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attacks which began the better part of this past week, the online poker site confirmed in an advisory. Since Wednesday, 25 April, customers have had intermittent success accessing the site at login, while many others have been […]
September 6, 2017
Last week’s Distributed Denial of Service attacks on internet poker provider America’s Card Room (see previous report) may have been at the behest of an as yet unidentified business rival, according to a player report on his contact with the anonymous hacker behind the attacks. Pressed on why he didn’t get a real job, the […]
September 5, 2017
A determined series of Distributed Denial of Service attacks took place late last week on America’s Cardroom and its Winning Poker Network, stretching from Thursday into the Saturday of the Labor Day weekend holiday and disrupting player services and tournaments. It is not known whether there were attempts to extort money from the company, but […]
October 6, 2015
Winning Poker Network has confirmed that it was again the subject of a Distributed Denial of Services attack late Sunday – the latest in a series targeting the operator, who has refused to pay ransom to the perpetrators in the past. Early reports suggest that the company’s losses due the the inability of players to […]
September 14, 2015
The Americas Cardroom online poker operator was hit by a “pretty large” series of Distributed Denial of Service attacks by persons unknown Sunday, with the hackers demanding an undisclosed ransom in Bitcoins to stop swamping the servers with data. Although the attacks disrupted the company’s Million Dollar Sunday afternoon tournament, causing a loss estimated by […]
December 15, 2014
Amid reports over the past two weeks of a growing number of suspected Distributed Denial of Service attacks on internet gambling sites (see previous reports) the weekend saw a million dollar online poker tournament at Americas Cardroom cancelled due to a persistent assault on the servers by a person or persons unknown at present. The […]