Millions of Accounts Compromised in UB Data Leak [Update: Data No Longer Online]

Large amounts of personal data belonging to UB account holders has been leaked with nearly 3.5 million accounts affected; details revealed include IP addresses, phone numbers and mailing addresses.

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According to Subject: Poker, there has been a security compromise at UB resulting in the personal data of nearly 3.5 million players being leaked onto the Internet. A post on the Two Plus Two forums - since removed - linked to the publicly-posted information that included sensitive data but no banking details.

The leaked data includes full names, screen names, IP addresses, home addresses and other contact details, account numbers (UB identifiers, not bank accounts), birth dates and deposit methods. While Subject: Poker could not verify that all leaked details are correct, they "looked up a small number of known accounts and... were unable to find an account whose personal details were not leaked accurately."

The data contains account details of roughly 2 million US players, over 300,000 Canadians and more than 100,000 accounts from the UK. At least 1 million accounts from the rest of the world are affected.

Subject: Poker state that "financial information other than deposit methods and account balances does not appear to be included" though a mostly empty "password" field was discovered in a file of mostly Italian players.

Roughly a month ago, the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, stated that they will try to liquidate the assets of Blanca Games Inc. (Absolute Poker/UB.com) in order to distribute proceeds to players.

This leak is not believed to have affected accounts at UB's sister site Absolute Poker.

We will of course bring the community more information as we receive it.

Update December 4th, 01:39 CET

In response to a request from Subject: Poker, the host of the website containing the leaked information has taken it down. It is unknown how many people had access to the site or how much of the data was downloaded during the duration of time that it was still online.

PokerStrategy.com can also confirm that the data is no longer online, and at the suggestion of Subject: Poker we will not be revealing the location where the data was held in order to be as cautious as possible. We highly encourage that anyone who had access to the data do the same.

Updates on this story will continue to be posted here as they become available.