How iCloud backups helped expose a mob-and NBA-linked poker cheating scandal

appleinsider - Digital evidence stored in iCloud played a key role in exposing a multistate poker-rigging scheme tied to organized crime and NBA players. Here's how, and what evidence was uncovered.iCloud data helps crack NBA and mob poker schemeFederal investigators us…

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Mind-boggling' poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players

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The mob and Chauncey Billups (???) allegedly used hacked card shufflers to rig poker games and steal millions from victims. And no one knows more about the hacking part than @agreenberg.bsky.social

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NEW: @wired.com recently tested a card shuffler that could be hacked to see every card in a deck. Today, an unsealed DOJ indictment against 31 people—including NBA people & mobsters—claims they used the shufflers in a $7M betting scam. @agreenberg.bsk

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Two weeks ago, we at WIRED published a video showing how a hacked casino card shuffling machine can be used for undetectable cheating in poker. Now it turns out the mob and a couple of NBA stars were already (allegedly) using exactly this trick to make mi

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How iCloud backups helped expose a mob-and NBA-linked poker cheating scandal

4 months / appleinsider

How Hacked Card Shufflers Allegedly Enabled a Mob-Fueled Poker Scam That Rocked the NBA

4 months / wired / Andy Greenberg

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