As you may have read on Casino Daily News a week ago, Paddy Power recently stepped up to admit that they had been concealing a serious security breach for more than 4 years.
Now, new information has surfaced related to the incident.
One Jason Ferguson, a resident of Canada, has come forth as the man who managed to get his hands on the personal information of over 650,000 Paddy Power players through the security breach of 2010. Allegedly, of course…
Old-school sports handicapper Ferguson claims that he got his hands on the player details via an anonymous third party. He claims at the time he thought that this was all perfectly legal.
’In this industry almost 90% of companies, if not more, procure targeted leads to market their brands and products,’ said Ferguson in his statement on Thursday, adding that these kind of deals were nothing out of the ordinary in the business of internet gambling.
In another part of this statement, Ferguson admits that the unidentified man against whom Paddy Power, alongside Leisure Gaming Group, launched a civil suit in May and July 2014, was indeed him.
“They executed a search and seizure order as they were under the assumption I had in my possession a copy of a Paddy Power database that was hacked and stolen in 2010,” he added.
Ferguson provided all the help the authorities needed through cooperating with them, presumably attempting to clear his name as the snake in the grass.