The money was still granted to the 140 lucky ones that were gambling in the hours of the hacking since the company believes those gamblers have no connection to the hacking. If the company had not found in time about the hacking they might have lost much more sums than they have.

Security experts say that other sites suffer sometimes from hacking for long periods and suffer from huge losses, in some cases the hackers turned to the online casino companies and demanded large sums of money if they don't want them to attack the site again. Online casino's sites won't admit it happened to them because it can harm the business but there are sign those things does happen.

There are different ways the hackers attacks the online casinos, some of them floods the sites in information request until he can't function, if such attack succeed it can cause a rubbery of million of dollars from gambling sites. In other cases the hacker change the programs so the winning odds will rise dramatically and sometimes the fraud is much more simple, the hackers created online casinos of their own and stealing the credit card's details of the gamblers signing in to their site, they just take a lot of money from the gamblers, shut the site down and escape with the money.