Who is going to go into North Korea to claim back that money that was stolen from Stake? The "Missile Man" will not even respond to allegations like that and will continue to launch test missiles all over the ocean.   

I see Stake dropped a $10 Bonus Drop for the kickoff Game of the NFL, but I do not see anything for the kickoff game of the Rugby World Cup? Cmon, Stake...... give some joy to the Rugby supporters too.... 

Very well articulated and insightful comment indeed, but honestly, I have never heard of this so called Lazarus group before, and even though there is no mention or pointer to why the FBI has attributed the hack to this group, but I am personally assuming the group has a particular way they conduct and carry out their operations which the FBI is already familiar with ..

But then again , the fact that you categorically made it clear that there is no way stake is getting back the money even when a group behind the hack is already identified, leaves me with more pressing questions like ..

Why and what do we have special security agents for ? 
The country in question, don't they have security agents? Are there any efforts being made to uncover and catch all those who are members of this group? Because I personally believe they are not spirits, they are humans like every one of us living in the same world we all live in, have the same blood and water flowing through their vain, why are they so untouchable?

Is this one of the proves that security agents are only meant to go after and catch only the common criminals out there, and not the high and mighty ones ?

It seems like they managed to deceive several people and get money from their stolen profits from spreading the phishing link, because it is impossible for this kind of fraudster to roam around with different accounts every day and sometimes appear in the comments of official tweets, this is strange but they have the money to pay for the gold ticks maybe it's not free, which is why things like this are misused by fraudsters.

I also never thought about why the idea was held that blue ticks and gold ticks could be bought on social media, even now Facebook and Instagram are doing that, this might make it easier for influencers who have difficulty getting blue ticks to buy them easily, but on the negative side it can abused by such scammers.

That is what I said, specifically, I think it reasonable to compare how they conduct the post-hack attempts. I also based my assumption on analysis from a blockchain analytics company, they do attribute the past hack to Lazarus by some factor like how they launder the hacked funds, and which service they utilise.

Given that, I believe Stake is already in contact with officials, and certainly, they know more information than we do, which concludes they allege Lazarus Group.


Well, what do you expect from North Korea?

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That's an exaggeration. There is no widespread and solid proof they are the most powerful and feared. Also, people did not avoid talking about them in any way.

Really? If it's not them, which other group is it? Could you name it here? Do you often see the FBI doing this kind of press release for a hack that did not even happen in their jurisdiction by the way? I hope for you they are not reading the thread, I wouldn't make fun with that, it's not a joke to do with this kind of people. In the press release, the FBI accuses them of being the culprits of the $100million hack of Atomic wallet in June.

It is well documented that autocratic countries send their most loyal students abroad to the best universities they can pay, so they can return back and offer their services to the regime. It is something which have been well documented, how China pays for students to go to Harvard.

So it is easy to picture a country where internet is forbidden for the normal and common people but it is widely available for the North Korean elite and their hacker groups who get money for them, literal fortunes without having to be afraid of prosecution for years (if ever).
Hopefully after this unfortunate attack, casinos will get some extra security measures to make those criminals to put infinitely more effort to even have a chance to succeed again.

You shouldn't need to find comparison from drug users to lift up citizens. Obviously people from NK are as intelligent as people in anywhere else. They are just not tech-savvy because government prevents of them having access to global internet. Even people who are studying in their universities have an access to intranet, not internet.

And labeling US citizens as low iq junkies is just weak. It's almost like you don't know, that there are studies that high iq and potential drug use are correlating in opposite way you are suggesting.

I don't know why would you get worked up about something that's public knowledge even though it's hard to get real information from NK without spies.

Sure, but that opportunity still reserved for the most privileged. Which makes me wonder where they are finding talented hackers. Forcing some priviledged people to learn how to hack doesn't bring in most talented people for it. Most talented might never get even an change to learn. And managing to hack something like stake requires a high level of talent ans skills. Which i am wondering how they harvest that from their citizens.

In free countries, hacking is a hobby that might bring you a job in cyber security if you are talented enough. People learn to think like a coder on their own free time, practising. And not in classes. That's why there are so many talented coders in free countries. People who are interested have opportunities to pursue their hobby.

Feels like the amount stolen now gets stolen back from the players.
Is it just me or has the weekly been cut again?

It feels awfully low this weekend, much less than I expected it to be.

Maybe they take it right back, Eddie for sure would do something like that. 

Still waiting to get to platinum 5 , get the bonus payday and finally leave this terrible site. It's about time. 2% to go still, which is not much actually.

First of all I am not flagged for anything. I get "normal Bonuses", not 0.08$ ones. When you only wager 1k, you shouldn't even get the base amount since 1k is not enough anymore. You are the the one that should be in the 0.08$ zone.
Let's say it like this, I had 10k wager, platinum 4 account, no profit and some loss because chasing platinum 5. And I got 30$ weekly. You think that's a "good amount"?

Also, your calculation couldn't be more wrong. Let's say the week had 2 million tickets (actually it's 2.1 million) . that's a total wager of 2 billion $ ( 2 million x 1000$ ) . It's fair to say that at least 75% come from the casino, most likely much more.
So that's 1,5 billion $ in total casino wager.

Now let's take ONLY 3% house edge on average and you get 45 million $ profit.
And that's a very friendly calculation. I think Casino revenue is much more than 75% of gross revenue and the house edge on average is also higher.

2-3 months LOL. 1 week and the hack is gone.

Haha I didn't really calculate it, just a few seconds to get a sample of the weekly bonus for 4 weeks and that is enough to illustrate their total profit
And now we have the calculations, so do you still believe in your initial opinion? regarding reduced weekly bonuses.

My account is Gold I don't know the base bonus maybe $5 like I got in these 2 weeks and here is my ticket
If you noticed on August 19th I only collected 6 tickets and my weekly bonus $31 for Gold level and your account as Platinum 4 claimed $30
This means that high levels do not always get higher bonuses, especially if they only play in-house games that low contribute to the house edge.