Ladbrokes’ customers are very worried as a result of confidential records, which include their home addresses, customer account numbers, dates of birth, details of their gambling history, phone numbers and email addresses being offered for sale to The Mail on Sunday newspaper by a man with an Australian accept.

The mystery Australian man, who gave his name as “Daniel” gave information on 10,000 customers and also offered the newspaper access to Ladbrokes’ database of 4.5 million customers from the UK and other parts of the world. Daniel claimed to be a security expert who had worked at Ladbrokes in Britain at one time and also claimed to be representing a company based in Melbourne, Australia, by the name of DSS Enterprises. The Sri Lankan-born IT expert, Dinitha Subasinghe, who runs DSS Enterprises, has, however, denied any involvement in the theft of the data although Ladbrokes is listed as a client. Mr Subasinghe reported that he had provided analytical services to Ladbrokes for 18months during 2007 and 2009.

Daniel first approached The Mail on Sunday claiming to have worked as an IT security consultant at Ladbrokes for two years and had been passed the data by a junior employee who was trying to sell it. He was originally going to tip off Ladbrokes but then decided to contact the media about the security breach.

Ladbrokes is presently working with the police, the ICO as well as the newspaper in an attempt to identify and apprehend the culprit. They are also contacting their customers to reassure them that they are doing all that they can in order to protect their personal information and apologized for the breach of security. They added that they do not believe that customer accounts or banking date can be accessed.

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