10.24.2025
Digital evidence stored in iCloud played a key role in exposing a multistate poker-rigging scheme tied to organized crime and NBA players. Here's how, and what evidence was uncovered.iCloud data
iCloud data helps crack NBA and mob poker scheme
Federal investigators used photos and data stored in iCloud accounts to uncover a multistate poker-rigging scheme involving NBA players and organized crime. Prosecutors said the group relied on modified shuffling machines and subtle signals to manipulate high-stakes games across state lines.
The iCloud data included imagery of key evidence such as an X-ray table used to rig poker games, several DeckMate shufflers disassembled to show their circuit boards, and a computer program that tracked information from the altered machines, reports The New York Post.
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