📢 Flash
Crypto casino Gamdom hit with $15 million Bitcoin ransom demand by ransomware group Whitearmor
Bitcoin.com reported that ransomware group Whitearmor claimed on October 26 to have breached the crypto casino Gamdom, exfiltrating data from a total of 15,420,003 user accounts—each containing 146 data fields. The group is threatening to publicly release all customers’ sensitive information unless it receives a $15 million Bitcoin ransom. On its ransom site, Whitearmor has uploaded a ~437KB JSON-formatted sample containing approximately 100 records as “evidence.” It also claims the compromised accounts are collectively tied to over $1 billion in profits—though it has not disclosed how this figure was calculated. According to disclosures, the attackers gained access via an internal machine account with administrator privileges whose credentials had not been rotated for an extended period. Earlier, on October 13, Gamdom suffered a hot wallet attack; its founder, Feli