Things Just Got Really Ugly for DraftKings: Over 67,000 Compromised

Written by:
Jagajeet Chiba
Published on:
Dec/19/2022

It's worse than we were led to believe.  DraftKings has now admitted that a hacking of customer accounts during the opening of this year's FIFA World Cup resulted in over 67,000 betting accounts being compromised.

At the time of the attack, DraftKings originally claimed there was no breach.  Customer service numbers and links were reportedly unreachable.

It was so bad that even David Purdum of ESPN reported on the dreadful response.  Good luck even today finding many media outlets reporting on the breach.  Most have comfy affiliate deals with DraftKings.

We typed "DraftKings Breach" into Google and got a few returns, most of those tech sites like Bleeping Computer, SiliconANGLE and Gizmodo.

We typed this huge story into Google News sorted by date and got four stories six hours after the news first broke.

Even Twitter was mostly void of anything related to the breach.

Customers apparently only learned the gravity of the situation this past weekend.

It was November 24 that DraftKings acknowledged the issue, albeit not to the extent we know of now.

At the time, they claimed pproximately $300,000 had been withdrawn from some customer accounts without authorization.  And those claiming responsibility for the breach took to Twitter to mock the matter, thanking DraftKings customers for the "free money".

Whether regulators care remains to be seen.

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- Jagajeet Chiba, Gambling911.com

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