{"id":399,"date":"2020-01-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gbc.ng\/nigerian-betting-company-denies-breach\/"},"modified":"2020-01-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T00:00:00","slug":"nigerian-betting-company-denies-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gbc.ng\/index.php\/nigerian-betting-company-denies-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"NIGERIAN BETTING COMPANY DENIES BREACH"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Samuel Qudingo<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the website iAfrikan.com, over 32GB of SureBet247 data, spread across six databases, has been exposed online. The information affected by the alleged incident includes user profiles, betting slip logs, a list of SureBet247 staff email addresses, and data linked to the company\u2019s website surebet247.com.<\/p>\n

The alleged breach came to light after an anonymous source found SureBet247 data online and tipped off Australian security researcher and haveibeenpwned founder\u00a0Troy Hunt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithin the databases there\u2019s everything from user records to betting histories, the latter consuming more than 100M rows in one of the databases,\u201d said Hunt.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m yet to total the user records, but multiple databases contained hundreds of thousands of user records each, so the number is substantial. Impacted data includes names, email addresses, dates of birth and betting records. It\u2019s not yet clear whether passwords were also compromised, that\u2019s something I\u2019m hoping to clarify with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The anonymous source reached out to Hunt in December 2019 after an attempt to warn SureBet247 of a potential security issue was spurned. Hunt contacted iAfrikan after his own efforts to notify SureBet247 of the alleged breach elicited no response.<\/p>\n

When iAfrikan\u2019s Tefo Mohapi contacted the gambling company to warn them of the alleged breach, he received a suggestion to email technical support and the response that it was SureBet247\u2019s decision whether or not to notify their customers of a possible data breach.<\/p>\n

According to MyNaijaBlog.com, the director-normal of Nigeria\u2019s National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has requested that an investigation into the alleged breach be carried out by the Data Breach Investigation Workforce.<\/p>\n

SureBet247 has publicly denied that any data breach has taken place. Earlier today, the company posted the following message on Twitter: \u201cDont be decieve [sic] by any false info. We weren\u2019t breached on any data. Thanks.\u201d<\/p>\n

SureBet247 was founded in 2011 and trades under the name ChessPlus International Limited.<\/p>\n

According to Mohapi, other online sports betting operators may have been affected by the alleged security incident. The exposed databases indicate that BetAlfa, BetWay, BongoBongo, and TopBet may have been compromised.<\/p>\n

Source: infosecurity-magazine.com<\/p>\n

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