Befair account hacked

[BENNY97]

Hi Gary ,i had my betfair account compromised last week by some f#ckwit who blew £300. on a silly arcade game which i've never even looked at before, never mind played , betfair have give me a completely new account ,but i was told by betfair i had to set up the new account with a different email address which i have done, but i am still paying for gruss subscription with my old email address which is registered with paypal , what do i have to do to change my gruss subscription to work with my new betfair account , betfair have kindly refunded the money to me which was used and i now have two step enabled ,in fact i have enabled two step authentication on everything i use !

[MarkRussell]

Hi,

Please contact us via admin@gruss-software.co.uk
We can transfer your existing subscription to your new account.

Regards,
Mark

[bolpx001]

I would be very interested to know broadly how the account was hacked. Was it at BENNY97 end or betfairs or somewhere else?
best regards - Paul

[BENNY97]

Hi ,my account was compromised from the betfair website i presume ,as the person who did the hacking used my money on an arcade game , i have not got a clue how they managed it , as i keep my password secure , but i've been told , there's hacking programs around that can hack any password that uses proper words and names etc. and the best way to combat it apart from using two step authentication , is to make a password and substitute random letters with symbols like # or @ for instance and numbers, the person who compromised my account was somewhere in slough based on there ip address which is 300 miles + from me, it was also a bt internet ip ,so if i can find where they're based ,i'd have thought betfair would have but who knows?!
I think it was or a kid or just a moron ! as they just gambled my money away and did'nt get anything out of it

[bolpx001]

Moron I suspect would be correct. Maybe they were trialling out a system to beat the arcade game and used your money to do it, just a thought. but then again maybe I am giving them too much credit - best regards Paul

[BENNY97]

Yes ,wasn't much of a trial ,six fifty pound bets on a video slot game called Top cat , maybe my betfair account had been entered into the best hacker of the year competition.
People, do and say strange things online these days to boost their fragile ego's