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Prosecutors Suspect Man Hacked Lottery Computers to Score Winning Ticket

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday April 16 2015, @05:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-feeling-lucky? dept.

AnonTechie writes in with an article from Ars Technica:

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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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @05:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @05:46AM (#171403)

    Lottery officials are supposed to be ineligible to win, to prevent exactly this sort of cheating.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @05:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @05:38PM (#171667)

    He wasn't eligible. That is why he constructed a super complicated ticket laundering scheme. In fact, the investigators spent over a year trying to trace the ticket backwards. It wasn't until they figured out that he was the guy who bought the ticket that all the pieces fell in place.