Betting sites urge caution after fraudulent activity

Online sports betting operators connected Monday were encouraging customers to instrumentality steps to support their accounts, aft aggregate companies saw fraudulent enactment successful caller weeks.

DraftKings said Monday that a "small number" of betting accounts were accessed by unauthorized users, starring to astir $300,000 successful lawsuit funds being withdrawn successful an onslaught the institution believes was caused by login accusation being stolen from third-party sites.

Sports betting media tract The Action Network reported that astatine slightest 1 lawsuit was locked retired of their DraftKings relationship Sunday and had wealth withdrawn from the slope relationship that was utilized to marque deposits with the sportsbook.

"DraftKings is alert that immoderate customers are experiencing irregular enactment with their accounts. We presently judge that the login accusation of these customers was compromised connected different websites and past utilized to entree their DraftKings accounts wherever they utilized the aforesaid login information," Paul Liberman, DraftKings co-founder, said successful a statement. "We person seen nary grounds that DraftKings' systems were breached to get this information. We person identified little than $300,000 of lawsuit funds that were affected, and we mean to marque full immoderate lawsuit that was impacted.

"We powerfully promote customers to usage unsocial passwords for DraftKings and each different sites, and we powerfully urge that customers bash not stock their passwords with anyone, including 3rd enactment sites for the purposes of tracking betting accusation connected DraftKings and different betting apps."

Ryan Butler, a writer who covers the crippled industry, wrote connected Twitter connected Monday that his DraftKings relationship was hacked and that FanDuel emailed him that determination was an effort to summation entree to his FanDuel account.

FanDuel reported accrued enactment from unauthorized actors attempting to summation entree to accounts, but "thus acold customers person not been impacted," a institution spokesperson said Monday afternoon. Caesars Sportsbook besides said Monday that it had not been impacted.

The unauthorized entree astatine DraftKings came conscionable weeks aft aggregate nonrecreational poker players reported having unauthorized betting accounts being acceptable up successful their names with BetMGM and utilized to retreat wealth from idiosyncratic checking accounts. Todd Witteles, a well-known poker pro from California, said idiosyncratic acceptable up a sports betting relationship with his sanction successful precocious October successful West Virginia, deposited $10,000 retired of his checking relationship to the sports betting relationship and withdrew $7,500 to a Venmo debit paper connected the aforesaid day. Witteles estimates upwards of 50 poker players experienced a akin contented astatine BetMGM that mostly occurred successful precocious October and aboriginal November. BetMGM said it is actively investigating the situation.

"The information of our patrons' accounts is of the utmost value to us," a BetMGM spokesperson said successful a connection to ESPN connected Friday. "We promote immoderate impacted patrons to interaction our lawsuit work section directly."

It is not known whether the incidents astatine DraftKings and BetMGM are connected.