Hackers gain access to Toronto Workers Club members' private data through poker machine company

By Nick O'Malley
Updated May 22 2018 - 4:20pm, first published May 21 2018 - 11:13am
BIG LOSS: Toronto Workers Club member Ray Fairall is unhappy about the data collected on him by pokie designer Aristocrat, who were targeted by hackers, despite him never playing their machines. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
BIG LOSS: Toronto Workers Club member Ray Fairall is unhappy about the data collected on him by pokie designer Aristocrat, who were targeted by hackers, despite him never playing their machines. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers

LAKE Macquarie’s Ray Fairall was shocked when he learned his private data may have been lost to hackers who targeted one of the world’s largest poker machine game designers, Aristocrat Leisure, despite never having played an electronic poker machine in his life.

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