Data breach at lottery tech vendor Brightstar exposes personal info of over 100,000 individuals

Comment #9

TwoMillion — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:52:27 GMT

there're three taxes on the jackpot winning:

1-first cut is the lottery organizers' cut. it's about 60% of the jackpot.

2-second cut is the Uncle Sam tax cut, it's around 37% on the amount left (after the lottery organizers got their 60% cut.

3-third cut is the state tax

4-fourth cut is the city tax like NYC, NY

Comment #8

Justing618 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:37:39 GMT

It seems these things that are supposed to make our lives more convenient and better come along with a buncha problems.......

Comment #7

Bleudog101 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:28:46 GMT

Very good points. Didn't 'they' say the jackpots would grow faster? They don't.

Also you mentioned they should reduce the tax rate, that's on the IRS not the lottery. As far as I could tell a couple of years ago there is no lottery lobbyist group to help on that. Just recently the IRS finally nudged up the taxable rate from $1200 to $2K; several Congress folks wanted it to $5K on slot machine wins.

My friend scanned his ticket @ home...$100 winner. Lady @ store tried slight of... [ More ]

Comment #6

TwoMillion — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 03:25:23 GMT

Mega Millions Price hike : In April 2025, the price of a Mega Millions ticket more than doubled, increasing from $2 to $5. This price jump was not well-received by many customers, leading them to stop playing. While the overall dollar intake and lottery profits have increased in some areas, the number of tickets sold has dropped significantly.

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Comment #5

Bleudog101 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 12:00:29 GMT

Just happened to click on a greyed out area of the Kentucky lottery website. Said 18 people who won a trip in 2017 2018 Wheel of Fortune scratch tickets were possibly affected.

Starting my journey with the VA (28 years too late) was griping all the security steps one has to take, through a private vendor, after reading this well worth it.

Historically don't pay much attention to companies that I have small investments in, and sure enough IGT now Brightstar.

Comment #4

Todd — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 13:26:14 GMT

Another example of the identity verification process being hacked, just like the Tea app that was recently hacked, and many others.

In my opinion it's because securing uploads like identity photos can be a challenge, and these companies don't put in the effort or cost required to do it. It is enticingly simple to setup a simple cloud service and do security by obscurity meaning the files are not actually secured (locked down), but instead they rely upon people not finding them because you'd... [ More ]

Comment #3

grwurston — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 23:53:26 GMT

Data breaches happen more than we know. 25 of the biggest.

https://www.upguard.com/blog/biggest-data-breaches-us

Comment #2

sully16 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 23:21:37 GMT

Wow, that really sucks, I hope they find the culprits.

Comment #1

EnReval — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:39:54 GMT

2024 we just now hearing about it, shucks wonder if this happened in GA or TX

Data breach at lottery tech vendor Brightstar exposes personal info of over 100,000 individuals

Lottery Post — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:28:31 GMT

Social Security numbers, financial data compromised in multi-state breach

By Kate Northrop

A data breach in a lottery technology supplier's internal system last year exposed sensitive information of over 100,000 individuals, including social security numbers.

Thousands of people across several states had their data exposed after Brightstar, a leading lottery technology company, was hit with a breach in November 2024.

On Oct. 3, Brightstar, formerly IGT, alerted Rhode Island Attor... [ More ]