Personal details of millions of Ladbrokes gamblers for sale
The confidential records of millions of British gamblers who bet with top bookmaker Ladbrokes have been offered for sale to The Mail on Sunday. The huge data theft is now at the centre of a criminal investigation after this newspaper was given the personal information of 10,000 Ladbrokes customers and offered access to its database of 4.5 million people in the UK and abroad. Last night we alerted Ladbrokes to the damaging security breach and handed the customer files to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), Britain's data watchdog, which immediately began to investigate. The records include customers' home addresses, details of their gambling history, customer account numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers and email addresses. Ladbrokes ...
