Just got this in my email today

Just thought people should know about this
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Dear Poker player ;

This is an informative e-mail from PokerHost.

It has been recently brought up to our attention that personal information is being requested to our players by an unknown source via pop up.

Please do not provide any type of information.

Poker Host strongly recommend you download and run a Spybot or Spyware cleaning software.

Once again we strongly urge you to avoid disclosing any of your personal information and to take the appropriate measures.

Sincerely,
Poker Host Management .

Thanks for the heads up.

I found this information through another forum:

This is the message on the Poker Host information window:

Dear Clients, Readers and Followers:

We would like to give everyone the official version of what happened with our web site, www.pokerhost.com.

On Tuesday, June 8, 2006 at 4:18 CST a breach of security occurred at a REGISTRAR level. The account where this URL is registered, handling all DNS, contact, and such, information was tampered with and changed without the consent of the LEGAL owners of the account, and of course URL. It was at that time re-directed to an free hosting service located in Florida, USA. The page that you currently see is nothing but a regular html file that simulates a pop-up page, by looking closely to the code of the page we could see that in reality is a regular page with a picture background of our front page.

What we have been able to determine at this time from the registrar is that they are undergoing a thorough investigation to give back FULL CONTROL of the Poker Host name and URL. We expect a final resolution of this incident within the next hours. We hope to have this issue remedied and FULLY amended. We will pursue the person, people or any associates involved in this matter to the fullest extent of the law.

Infringement on the rights of the legal owners of web sites and/or any users, visitors, clients and organizations affected by these flagrant disregards of private, intellectual and/or physical property should be brought to justice; regardless of the origin of the business that is operated by the owners of any URL(s).

As you have been able to see, on all these forums and posting sites, the current look and information of the site are completely fraudulent in nature. In essence, Poker Host’s web site has been hacked and hijacked. As you can see, there is form placed on the URL, which supposedly “harvests” any one persons information and supposedly sends to the FBI. This is totally false!

WE URGE ANY USERS AND/OR VISITORS TO NOT FILL ANY INFORMATION OUT SINCE WE HAVE NO GUARANTEE OF WHAT THIS INFORMATION MAY BE USED FOR!!

We hope this sheds some light on the problem at hand. We hope to be able to continue with our normal operations once these matters have been resolved. We are currently working on bringing up a backup site at www.pokerhost.ws where you can find the REAL Poker Host web site. Fell free to contact us or send us an e-mail at any of our usual account names and just change the ending for .ws. I.E. support@pokerhost.ws.

Our kindest regards,

Poker Host Management Staff

Now thats scary that the registrar itself was hacked. I wonder who they registered thier domain through.

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Wanted: DEAD OR ALIVE - KK - Quickest SIX in THF

Yeh, to me, hacked=not secure=I don't want my money there. I would withdraw all funds from pokerhost immediately, and never play on their tables again.

As I understand it, their site was not hacked, the registrar that allows them to have the domain pokerhost.com was hacked so someone stole the domain from them, and made thier own pokerhost.com

But if that is true I wonder who they registered it with. I have never heard of a registrar being hacked.

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Wanted: DEAD OR ALIVE - KK - Quickest SIX in THF

WE URGE ANY USERS AND/OR VISITORS TO NOT FILL ANY INFORMATION OUT SINCE WE HAVE NO GUARANTEE OF WHAT THIS INFORMATION MAY BE USED FOR!!

WOW I feel safe

could this be the end of P.H?

I just want to run right out and deposit.

Begs the question...."If they can do it to one poker site"....????

I wouldn't say P.H is to blame for this....and by what's posted they seem to be being very open and honest about it........so at least they are doing what they can to retain customer's...........If you have never had a problem with them B4 this then I see very little reason to leave them now.........when all said and done there has been a new hacker's loophole exposed and I'm sure they will/have fixed the issue, with things now put in place to prevent it happening again....!!!

Well until the hackers find a new way to hack it and when they do I'm sure they will pick on a completely different Room.

IMO of course (Xtra )