Online Poker Cheating Scandal May Have Cost Players Up to $4M

High-stakes online poker players may have lost as much as $4 million to a cheater who secretly viewed opponents’ hole cards , according to a new investigation that has raised questions about at least one operator’s response to the issue. The attacker allegedly compromised Jurojin and IntuitiveTables, two programs popular with professionals who play multiple online poker tables simultaneously. The compromised software was able to install MeshAgent, a remote-access program capable of viewing and controlling infected computers. This gave the attacker access to opponents’ cards as they played, without breaching the poker sites’ own systems.