{"id":97920,"date":"2019-02-07T14:54:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T22:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=97920"},"modified":"2019-02-07T14:55:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T22:55:06","slug":"assault-alleged-at-ice-as-spat-erupts-involving-hacker-at-atrient-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/assault-alleged-at-ice-as-spat-erupts-involving-hacker-at-atrient-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Investigating Alleged Assault at ICE as Bizarre Spat Develops Between \u2018White-Hat\u2019 Hacker and Casino Supplier, Atrient"},"content":{"rendered":"

The International Casino Exhibition<\/a> (ICE) has been raging all week at the ExCel convention center in London, where an unusual row has erupted between a self-proclaimed ethical hacker and a market-leading vendor of digital casino rewards kiosks.<\/p>\n

\"Atrient\"
Dylan Wheeler, who as a teenager courted infamy by hacking into the US Army\u2019s computer system claims, he was assaulted by the COO of Atrient at ICE. We promise we\u2019re not making this up. (Image: Lupa.cz)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“White-hat” hacker Dylan Wheeler (the bad ones are called “black hats”) claims he was assaulted at ICE by the COO of Michigan-based Atrient, which is exhibiting at the convention and works with some of the biggest names in the casino industry.<\/p>\n

Atrient says no assault took place and claims Wheeler and his group of security researchers have made \u201cfalse claims\u201d about the company\u2019s IT flaws, demanding money. It even hinted the group was responsible for an attack on its servers in November.<\/p>\n

Leaky Server was \u2018License to Print Money\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n

So what gives? \u00a0Wheeler — who as a 17-year-old got into hot water for hacking Microsoft and the US Army — has since resolved to use his talents for good, exposing security flaws that might be exploited by criminals, a practise known in the hacking community as vulnerability disclosure\u00a0.<\/p>\n

He told Computer Business Review<\/em> that he approached Atrient last year after he and a colleague stumbled on an unsecured API server<\/a> belonging to the company.<\/p>\n

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The server was \u201cwide open\u201d and completely unencrypted, according to Wheeler, which would allow anyone to change the details and to \u201cprint money\u201d by adding VIP credits to user accounts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Atrient lists among its clients MGM Resorts, Hard Rock casinos, and dozens of other commercial and tribal gaming operators.<\/p>\n

Receiving no reply from Atrient, Wheeler went to the FBI, who facilitated several Skype meetings between all three parties.<\/p>\n

FBI Meetings<\/strong><\/h2>\n

That these meetings occurred, last November, is not in doubt because they were recorded by Wheeler and published online this week on information security website SecJuice.com following the alleged assault at ICE.<\/p>\n

In one meeting, after hearing the hackers\u2019 concerns about the server\u2019s vulnerability, Atrient COO, Jessie Gill, says, \u201cThe information you\u2019ve shared with us here is fantastic, we\u2019d like to own this information. How do we make that happen?\u201d<\/p>\n

An FBI officer says, \u201cFrom the FBI side we\u2019re very grateful for all involved in this.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hackers claim they were promised a $60,000 \u201cbug bounty\u201d and agreed to work with Atrient to fix the problems and mitigate future risks, but that\u2019s when the line of communication suddenly went dead.<\/p>\n

Wheeler\u2019s Account<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Seeing that Atrient was exhibiting at ICE and that the security issues had not been fixed, London-based Wheeler thought he\u2019d pop in to see them and ask what had happened.<\/p>\n

I went to shake their CEO\u2019s hand and managed to introduce myself\u2026 they understood who I was straight away,\u201d Wheeler told CBR.<\/em> \u201cTheir CEO just kind of sat there. Then their COO, Jessie Gill, stood up saying, \u2018We\u2019re talking to the FBI and talking to Scotland Yard!\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThey said: \u2018You think you can have your buddies harass us!\u2019\u201d continued Wheeler. \u201cI said \u2013 and I don\u2019t \u2013 have any idea what you\u2019re taking about. Then he grabbed at my chest and pulled me into him\u2026 saying he should get the FBI and Scotland Yard to get us\u2026 He grabbed my [ID] badge and said I\u2019m going to keep this. So, I grabbed it back. Then he started forcibly pulling at it to get it off the lanyard and put it on the table.\u201d<\/p>\n

Official Response Deleted by Atrient<\/strong><\/h2>\n

But Gill told CBR<\/em> over the phone there had been no assault and that Wheeler and his colleagues had \u201ctaken information that\u2019s publicly available and twisted it into an extortion scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n

Atrient later released a largely unintelligible official statement via Twitter that mentioned \u201ca brute force attack on a demo server which contained no personal data\u201d in November and a \u201cfinancial motive,\u201d although exactly what it was alleging was unclear.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe FBI is aware of this group,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

Of the encounter with Wheeler, it said: \u201cAfter being informed that Atrient would not pay any money he made another false accusation, this time of assault, which an ExCel Convention Centre investigation has found to be baseless.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the statement was apparently deleted after the recordings of the meetings between the two parties and the FBI were published online.<\/p>\n

London\u2019s Metropolitan Police have confirmed they are investigating an allegation of assault at ExCel, although no arrests have been made, a police spokesman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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