Gamblers with Skrill accounts warned on hacks

According to reports on the twoplustwo message board online punters with accounts at the Skrill payment processing facility need to take care following a slew of unauthorised, and in some cases successful, log-in scams.

Apparently the attempted frauds started two weeks ago, with one poster reporting that $12,000 was removed from his account after its security was compromised.

A number of other players report that unauthorised log-in attempts were made on their accounts as well, with speculation that there may have been an information leak.

Fortunately, the Skrill service has a security feature that warns players when log-ins are attempted on their accounts, alerting them to the danger.

The issue has been reported to the British police and is being investigated.