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Originally Posted by iburydoscocaroaches
Any time you guys have problem with a poker site contact the off shore gaming commission...
AllinAsia.com / All In Asia guys are affiliates, not a poker site. I do not know if they need to be regulated legally or have any reviews done by a commission.
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Originally Posted by iburydoscocaroaches
Sounds like AIA resolved the situation just took them awhile to figure out what was going on and how to resolve it...
Poker sites do get hacked and broken into just like anything else online. This can happen to any poker site.
The site set themselves up for this type of issue. It is clear that they had, and still have, no clue on how to deal with attempting to prevent this type of situation.
While other sites may have had some compromise issues, they would have dealt with them much much better than All In Asia. You would be hard pushed to find a site with worse follow up than AIA.
I am not even sure if All in Asia has resolved anything, they refunded some funds (nice to see that) but then follow up by posting some absolute bs about preventing any cyber attacks in the future
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Originally Posted by iburydoscocaroaches
I know Doug Polk had some sort of 2+2 post about how to keep your computer safe and your account from being hacked if moderator can post a link for you guys to check it out.
Polk has several threads over the years of him getting scammed/conned/compromised multiple times. This might be the one you are referring to, from August 2013:
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/5...tyler-1359054/
This is what I suggested in it:
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Originally Posted by pmarrsouth
The best way of safeguarding your living is to have a computer and internet connection dedicated for POKER USE ONLY. Anyone playing for a living, especially $3/$6+, should have this. Nothing else should be installed on that machine other than your poker sites, your HEM/PT and table ninja/AHK. There is no need to have anything none poker related on it. The dedicated internet connection should only ever be used to have that computer connected to it - no phones, no personal computers, no friends who come around to the house, etc.
Skype/AIM/IMing/Facebooking/webbrowsing etc should all be used from your personal computer and another internet connection.
These people who are planting stuff on your computers are doing it as they know your IP address from programs such as Skype, AIM and also from having phishing sites which they will direct you to. Also poker players will allow people into their hotel rooms that they don’t really know, where they have their own poker laptops laid out in full view. This happens at poker events around the world. Letting people into your house when you are not there who can wander about is an issue too.
Unfortunately poker players are notoriously lazy and the vast majority of them will not be bothered to spend 1 BI (or even <1 BB in the case of a nosebleed player) on a dedicated computer. A 2nd internet connection for most people will cost a few BB per month. Players will not be bothered about doing the above as it “wont happen to me” and then be amazed when it does happen to them. Some players wont even bother doing it after being hit for 6 figures, when heavily advised to do it as they are clearly a target.
While the above will not 100% rule out someone infecting your machines, it will heavily reduce the possibility of you getting compromised in this manner
Cliffs:-
Buy a dedicated computer, only install sites & HEM/PT & TN
Get a dedicated internet connection for that computer only
Lock your computer when not in use if people in house
Don’t allow people to use/ go near your laptop when at a live poker tourny
While this is still legitimate advice, and should be followed by any professional online player, it would not have helped stop what occurred in this thread
Last edited by pmarrsouth; 10-30-2017 at 12:22 AM.