The Australian Gambling site Australiangambling.com.au is reporting that prominent online casinos, online sports betting sites and bingo sites are selling personal data of their players as a commodity.

Nick Haslem, who wrote the article, says the site bought that personal data of players from leading online casinos and gambling businesses, including 888, William Hill, Titan Poker and Full Tilt Poker. According to Haslem strictly regulated online operators like PartyPoker and PokerStars are not involved in such activities. According to Haslem he got the details about this case in a conversation via msn. These details include the name of the person who sells the data, the person helping him, the operators involved and a sample list of personal data of 50 gamblers. The method is easy, Ryan Clegg buys this information on a regular basis with employees of online casinos, poker sites, bookmakers and bingo sites. Accordingto Haslem Clegg did not want to say whether the personal information was traded with knowledge of the online gambling operator. According to Clegg, he sells the data for some time now to the highest bidder, this happens once every two weeks or once per month. Among the data are first and last name, residential address, date of birth, email address and even credit card information and transaction records. According to Clegg a list with 40,000 names, sells just over 4.500 pounds, the list even contain names of problem gamblers who have put themselves on the exclusion list. According to the report the biggest culprits are, Casino Tropez, EuroGrand, Casinojoy, intercasino, Vegas Red, William Hill and many others. The report will horrify some people, but for many it is old news that personal data is being sold in a world where personal data can be traded for a lot of money.