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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: 2) by Bot on Thursday April 16 2015, @10:39PM
There can be different ways of rigging.
I recall one Italian lotto scandal where some numbers to were warmed up before the extraction, and the blindfolded child was instructed to look for those (like it was a game) . It needed insiders of course, and it gave a new meaning to the "hot" number.
But it would not have worked in a lottery because all numbers should have been picked, and in the correct order.
Don't forget the problem, which is generating a random number. It can be done BOTH electronically and physically, just combine the two or more sources. So the idea is still good.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 17 2015, @12:44PM
With a ball-drawing machine, there's no child (or other human being) involved in the actual drawing. Any manipulation therefore would have to be on the machine or balls, before the drawing begins.