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>\nBut 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>\nAtrient 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":"
The International Casino Exhibition (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. “White-hat” hacker Dylan Wheeler (the bad ones are called “black hats”) claims he was assaulted at ICE by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":97923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,21,16693],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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