Lotto, but not: employee caught the lottery fraud

Who among us has not dreamed of winning the lottery? Remembering that luck man creates himself, computer security officer lottery Hot Lotto решил to realize his dream . For this, he corrected a little work computers produce results draw. As a result, he bought a ticket won the jackpot worth $ 14.3 million. But the joy was short-lived.

Prosecutors in the trial reported last week that they had evidence of foul play. According to them, 51-year-old Eddie Raymond Tipton took office, entered the room where the computer is located lottery, and infected them with malicious software that allowed him to influence the results of the draw.

Computers are equipped with cameras and protected room, and for safety reasons not connected to the Internet. Tipton went into the room, ostensibly to adjust the system time of computers. Cameras that capture what is happening in the room at that moment were switched to the recording mode of one frame per minute. "Winning" the defendant bought a ticket about a month after that.

The whole story came under investigation only when the ticket winnings demanded dummy offshore company. By the time the deadline for receipt of winning almost walked out.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/249018/