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Prosecutors say they have evidence indicating the former head of computer security for a state lottery association tampered with lottery computers prior to him buying a ticket that won a $14.3 million jackpot, according to a media report.
Eddie Raymond Tipton, 51, may have inserted a thumbdrive into a highly locked-down computer that's supposed to generate the random numbers used to determine lottery winners, The Des Moines Register reported, citing court documents filed by prosecutors. At the time, Tipton was the information security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association ), and he was later videotaped purchasing a Hot Lotto ticket that went on to fetch the winning $14.3 million payout.
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Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday April 17 2015, @01:29PM
Bum walks out of the store, give him two 1.75l bottles of cheap vodka in exchange for the tickets.
You still need someone to cash the tickets. What probably gave the scheme away in the first place was the shell corporation which held the winning ticket.