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04 Sep 11 23:09
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It appears that the company who provide DNS services to betfair has been hacked. This means that a malicious user has been able to point the name 'www.betfair.com' to one of their own servers, presenting a splash page. The Betfair site (infrastructure) itself is unaffected, but until we can correct this DNS issue at the network provider's side, some of our users will experience this redirection to the wrong page. We are working with them on this issue.
There appear to be several other companies affected (Dell, UPS) - those who use the same DNS provider. We don't have any reason to believe that this attack is targeted specifically at betfair, or that there is any reason for betfair customers to fear for the safety of their data. However, if you wish us to suspend your account temporarily at this time, we are able to do so.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
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Luckily seems things were just redirected to a splash page bragging of their hack rather than a clone of the site to snatch passwords
I would def change your password just in case,
Incidentally i always thought Betfair needed more security than just a password
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It needs to be at least up to bank standards imo considering how much money some people have in there accounts and how unlikely you are to get it back.
Incidentally i always thought Betfair needed more security than just a password
. It needs to be at least up to bank standards imo considering how much money some people have in there accounts and how unlikely you are to get it back.
Freddy -
I agree.
One solution would be for Betfair to issue customers with membership cards & the devices you put your debit card into when you log into online banking.
When people wanted to make withdrawls, Betfair could ask them to enter their pin into the device (with the card inserted), and then enter the code that appears (which would be issued remotely by Betfair).
It would be a faff, but I bet fraudulent withdrawls would all but disappear.
Jeff
I agree.
One solution would be for Betfair to issue customers with membership cards & the devices you put your debit card into when you log into online banking.
When people wanted to make withdrawls, Betfair could ask them to enter their pin into the device (with the card inserted), and then enter the code that appears (which would be issued remotely by Betfair).
It would be a faff, but I bet fraudulent withdrawls would all but disappear.
Jeff