Cake Poker Apologizes After Security Issues Become Evident

Cake Poker Network has issued a public apology to the Cereus poker network after it was uncovered that its network faces similar security issues to those discovered on the Cereus network back in May.

Earlier this week, PokerTableRatings.com (PTR) discovered the same simplistic encoding system responsible for Cereus’ security issues being used on Cake Poker Network. After discovering his error Cake Poker card room manager, Lee Jones, humbly released the following apology and explanation on the popular 2plus2 poker forum:

"Sure, when the issue came up in May, I asked our software management team. They told me that we were more secure than Cereus [another network whose security flaws were exposed by PTR]. When this all came to light a few hours ago and they got down into the actual code, it turned out they were wrong (as one of the senior managers just admitted to me).

"Somewhere along the software ladder, there was an error of omission, commission, stupidity, documentation or some combination thereof. I'm not happy about it and neither is the manager to whom I spoke.

"Furthermore, I definitely have to accept some blame here. I could have (and wished I had) pushed further on the response I got, talked to some development people about it (they're in-house), etc.

"I'm going to post an official response shortly, but believe me, I feel crappy about having said in May that we had stronger encryption than Cereus did when we didn't. The lesson I've learned is to ask more harder questions when these sorts of things come up.

"I owe the entire Cake poker community an apology: I am very, very sorry."