Roguish 888.com sells your info - or they have been hacked

[The Dude]

Just going through some of my email accounts that I've used to sign up at whatever casino. I use a unique email address that is not used anywhere else, and look what I found in my 888.com inbox:

Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 15:41:03 +0000 [09/29/2013 03:41:03 PM UTC]
From: Milla Ebsworth <[email protected]>Add [email protected] to my Address Book
To: 888 <[email protected]>Add [email protected] to my Address Book
Subject: Got a combo? take home 30 spins
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What a laugh. Of course this company didn't have my permission to email me. Either my account details have been sold to some spammer company, or their database has been hacked. At least it's not a flood of emails. There is another nearly identical one for Redflush as well.

 

[dionysus]

well, another reason not to play here lol.
If they sold it, I don't trust them. If they were hacked, they aren't very secure, and I don't trust them.
If they were indeed hacked, I don't recall seeing any PR by them suggesting people change their passwords to protect their account, which is very negligent of them...so, ya, again, don't trust them.

Rougeish? I'd say out and out rogue.

 

[The Dude]

I noticed the links included a reference to my email address. Since I never clicked through them in September (when I first received these two emails), they probably assumed that it was an inactive email account. Since I now clicked them, they will be able to tell that it's a live account and perhaps I'll be getting some more unwelcome emails. I'll check back in a few days and see what happens.