WPT Amateur Poker League Data Breach

What happened

In January 2014, the World Poker Tour (WPT) Amateur Poker League website was hacked by the Twitter user @smitt3nz. The attack resulted in the public disclosure of 175,000 accounts including 148,000 email addresses. The plain text password for each account was also included in the breach.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your WPT Amateur Poker League password immediately, and update it anywhere you reused the same password.
• Enable two-factor authentication on the affected account and on your critical services (email, banking).
• Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing WPT Amateur Poker League — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.