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Originally Posted by thunderbolts
I'm sorry, but each post you make is more wrong.
Occam's Razor suggests that the first thing to be compromised would be the email account. That is the prime target, because controlling that gives access to most if not all other accounts (because most people still haven't learned to use unique email accounts for their poker sites*).
Following your logic, all other poker sites would be equally ripe targets as Stars. In fact Stars as one of the more sophisticated operators is likely to be a riskier and/or more difficult target.
Stars is much, much, MUCH more popular than every other site, and they therefore will have a disproportionately large amount of publicized attacks happen to them. The amount of actual attacks on smaller sites may be entirely proportional to what we are seeing here. You are just making assumptions in order to support your argument.
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Originally Posted by thunderbolts
Occam's Razor also suggests that where there is ONLY evidence of the Stars password being compromised (and no other account belonging to any of the victims of these attacks) the vulnerability most likely lies with Stars and not the players' machines.
This just does not follow logically. Because a certain account is the only one being accessed does not inherently suggest that the breach came from that account.
As I've already stated, there are many other reasons why stars might be the accounts being targeted, such as the fact that they have lots of money in them but are less secure than other popular accounts that also have money in them, such as bank accounts.
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Originally Posted by thunderbolts
*In fact I think OP said he used his email account only for Stars, FTP and HEM, but the point is that the attacker wouldn't know that unless they had access.
Or unless, you know, he tried this thing called trial and error. For a total of like 10 tries.
I'm not trying to absolve PS of any blame here as you guys seem to think, I'm just showing you guys how poor your arguments are so that you're not disappointed when your nonsense theories inevitably fall apart, and so the parties of importance in this situation are better able to sift through the nonsense and get to the actual facts of the case.
Last edited by bjsmith22; 03-20-2015 at 03:09 PM.