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Data breach at lottery tech vendor Brightstar exposes personal info of over 100,000 individualsNews Story
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
Oct 10, 2025, 8:28 am - Todd - Lottery News

Texas Senator threatens to defund the Texas LotteryReply
Stack this stuff is so deep and complicated we're still getting new information We learned from Lottery.com's lawyer, Greg Potts, that Lottery.com is already under investigation by the US Dept of Justice involving actions of it's prior board of directors Greg Potts also told the lawmakers that Lottery.com asked if this were legal and were assured by the lottery commission they had no problem with it. iGT testified that Winners Circle was in possession of 47 terminals, not the 30 t
Mar 2, 2025, 1:21 am - garyo1954 - Lottery News

Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
You should ask how the draws are done for 2nd chances in Florida. I found out a lot by asking around the lottery contacts I had in the state when I played a lot. Sometimes you may think you have a ton of entries, but if you don't know how they conduct the draws sometimes you may not have any entries depending on the methods use to narrow the selection group. I.E. Here I know some of these methods are used when picking 2nd chance winners. I've heard they take entries from specific
Apr 8, 2025, 10:54 am - Zebekyia - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Texas Senator threatens to defund the Texas LotteryReply
Are you in Texas? Why does that matter to you? Have you been following anything Todd or Kate have written? They write a lot. Be specific. Are you aware that Pete Sullivan, from Draft Kings testified that groups watch and target lotteries once the payout is larger than the permutations of the game? So it's ok to be penalized for playing smart? And that additional steps limiting the number of terminals and the number of tickets sold by any terminal has been instituted?
Mar 2, 2025, 4:25 pm - LottoIntuitive - Lottery News

A Texas Lottery jackpot was "bought" last year, but legislators are pushing wrong solutionNews Story
Media echo chamber confuses problem and misleads public Exclusive Lottery Post investigative report By Kate Northrop Last year, a New Jersey-based group essentially bought a $95 million Lotto Texas jackpot by purchasing all the possible number combinations. Now state legislators are eying possible measures to prevent it from happening again, but those solutions may do more harm than good. A New Jersey-based group called Rook TX gamed the odds by buying nearly every number combin
Oct 18, 2024, 11:57 am - Todd - Lottery News