Court Rules on Swedish Online Poker Case

Apr 16, 2014
Court Rules on Swedish Online Poker Case
Sweden's Värmland District Court has sentenced 8 people associated with an online poker fraud case after two years of investigation by Swedish authorities and the Swedish gaming authority Lotteriinspektionen. The ring hacked into various large company databases, one of which was Svenska Spel, and obtained private login information from 2007 to 2011 to access gaming accounts and remove the balances. Swedish Gaming Board Lotteriinspektionen operations manager Erik Sjöholm said, "It is noteworthy that this could last for so long and that it was so easy to obtain the login information for email addresses and game accounts. These are security issues that should be reviewed in light of the approaches that have emerged in the investigation." The court decided that the stolen money should be repaid to claimants and the unclaimed portion is to go the State. Claims ranged from just a few hundred dollars up to $280,000.
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