News network MSNBC.com has reported that Blast-Off Ltd., a private company which currently owns the online poker site UltimateBet, has filed a formal litigation against Canadian firm Excapsa Software Inc., UB former owners, for a total of $75 million in damages for its responsibility and direct participation in the "superuser" scandal that has beleaguered the online poker room this year.

The scandal begun in January, 2008, when several players posted comments in several blogs complaining about “strange betting patterns” and other unusual activities that involved an UB account. In May, Tokwiro Enterprises ENRG, UltimateBet's owner and main operator, finally confessed that UltimateBet security and accounts were violated by former employees. These employees took advantage or a security breech to get information about the opponent's hole cards used in thousand of hands during high-stakes games. AbsolutePoker.com also owned by Tokwiro Enterprises, suffered a similar situation last year that ended up with a monetary penalization and a warning by the Kahnawake Gaming Comission.

"The ability of a specific account to view hole cards was enabled by illicit software that was placed on the UltimateBet servers prior to October 2006, which was before Tokwiro acquired the business." said Tokwiro representatives in a statement released only a few months ago.

Two months ago, the Kahnawáke Gaming Commission (KGC) requested the former New Jersey State Gaming Regulator Frank Catania to lead an investigation to discover all the details of the “superuser” at UltimateBet.com and Absolute Poker, including the responsibility that Tokwiro Enterprises had in the cheating scandal. Tokwiro Enterprises is owned by Joe Norton, former Grand Chief of the Kahnawáke Tribe.

MSNBC.com has also reported that Excapsa has voluntarily entered a liquidation proceeding, and according to the company working on Excapsa's liquidation case, Blast-Off and Tokwiro "are somewhat one in the same."