According to a statement posted on the sites’ blog, the Heartbleed Bug did not affect PokerStars‘ or Full Tilt Poker‘s real money clients. The bug attacked an issue in OpenSSL, but according to PokerStars officials, “At no stage were our downloadable clients on either PokerStars or Full Tilt Poker vulnerable to this issue at any time. This applies to both desktop and mobile clients.”

The statement came in response to numerous questions from the poker community about whether PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker were compromised at any point, but now we apparently have our answer. PokerStars noted that payment information, hole card data, and game play records all remained secure, including players’ user names and passwords.

As for the technical reasons the Full Tilt and PokerStars clients were unaffected, the same statement explained, “The Full Tilt Poker client was not vulnerable because the Full Tilt Poker software did not use the affected versions of OpenSSL. The PokerStars client was not vulnerable because it does not use Transport Layer Security, which was the vulnerable protocol in the OpenSSL library.”

The company did not come out of the Heartbleed incident unscathed, however. PokerStars admitted that its “play money social gaming product on Facebook was theoretically vulnerable” and therefore that data could have been compromised.

PokerStars elaborated on the steps it took to correct the issue within the social networking site: “We applied the required fix within 24 hours of the public disclosure of the vulnerability, so the product is no longer vulnerable and it is unlikely that anyone took advantage of the vulnerability in this situation. PokerStars does not offer any real money gaming on this product, so this issue only had the potential to affect play money chips.”

Rob Withington, PokerStars’ Director of Information Security, authored the statement, which appeared on the PokerStars Blog on Saturday.

PokerStars is the largest online poker site in the world, with a seven-day average of 21,000 real money ring game players, according to PokerScout. Full Tilt Poker, which was once the second largest site, has since dropped to #5 with a seven-day running average of 1,900 cash game players.

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