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

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: 2) by hubie on Friday April 17 2015, @02:25AM

    by hubie (1068) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 17 2015, @02:25AM (#171850) Journal

    Because you can't rig a ping pong ball machine?

    Of course you can [wikipedia.org].

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