Daniel Negreanu's Account Hijacked

February 04, 2012
While Canadian PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu was enjoying his flight home, someone was playing from his account without his knowledge, the unknown infiltrator lost $46,000 in one session.
Daniel Negreanu

Daniel Negreanu reported on a popular poker forum that his email account and then his poker account has been hijacked, he tweeted:

"Important: Do NOT send me any emails the account appears to have been hacked. Just landed in LA nice news."

This was followed by some suspicious events; the hacker reportedly started to play as Kidpoker at $100/200 NLHE HU and 6-max tables, where he played about 400 hands, and lost a total of $46,000 before logging out. Negreanu commented:

"I was on an airplane home while this guy was joyriding my Stars account. He hacked my email and I got that back, still figuring out what happened. When I have all the details I'll share when it makes sense to.

Some of you NVGtards really thought that was me??? Man HSP has really done wonders for my image :-)"

Many players still speculate that it was Negreanu who used his account and wants to blame his poor play on someone else.

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