Bingo Affiliates in the Uk are being offered player data for sale.  A particular bingo website which is a major brand in the UK is on the list displaying name, address, email, amount deposited along with the player usernames and passwords.

Bingosupermarket has contacted the company from where the alleged information has come from but the bingo operator has claimed the alleged breach to be a hoax.   Bingosupermarket can confirm that these player accounts were indeed active accounts and were still active up to 12th May 2011.

It is not clear if anybody has already purchased this data which has been canvassed around since before April this year but anyone doing so may now be committing an illegal act. It is not uncommon for data to be sold between companies, but usernames and passwords and specific player deposits is too much information and is intrusive.

Details of the alleged data breach are emering and this could prove very costly for the operator involved as trust in an online bingo site is everything.

It is widespread on the internet that online bingo is much better and safer than land based.  One thing worth remembering that land based bingo is not watched by big brother.  Bingo players are not profiled and segregated into high rollers and then incentifised to spend more.  Player accounts are not scanned by machines designed to pick out the weak and vulnerable and exploit the spending further.  Low spending and insiginicant players are not weeded out to be put on a spreadsheet and sold onto other bingo clubs to make a fast buck.