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Bloke rigged systems so he knew which numbers would come next!
Iowa state lottery's IT security boss hacked his employer's computer system, and rigged the lottery so he could buy a winning ticket in a subsequent draw.
On Tuesday, at the Polk County Courthouse in Des Moines, Iowa, the disgraced director of information security was found guilty of fraud.
Eddie Tipton, 52, installed a hidden rootkit on a computer system run by the Multi-State Lottery Association so he could secretly alter the lottery's random number generator, the court heard. This allowed him to calculate the numbers that would be drawn in the state's Hot Lotto games, and therefore buy a winning ticket beforehand.
The prosecution said he also tampered with security cameras covering the lottery computer to stop them recording access to the machine.
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