Six Charged For Hacking Lottery Terminals To Spew Only Winning Tickets (theregister.co.uk)

Posted by msmash on Saturday March 26, 2016 @06:00AM from the gaming-the-system dept.

An anonymous reader cites an article on The Register: Six people have been charged with exploiting a bug in lottery terminals to print off winning tickets on demand. Connecticut prosecutors say the group conspired to manipulate automated ticket dispensers to run off '5 Card Cash' tickets that granted on-the-spot payouts in the US state. According to the Hartford Courant, a group of shop owners and employees set up the machines to process a flood of tickets at once, which caused a temporary display freeze. This allowed operators to see which of the tickets about to be dispensed would be winning ones, cancel the duff ones, and print the good ones, it's alleged. The winning tickets would be cashed and billed to the state lottery.

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Re:Money Lust Before Sanity by Ecuador · 2016-03-26 06:12 · Score: 3, Insightful

I'm sure they thought of it and discussed how they would be careful and not overdo it and spread the transactions etc. Then, greed.

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