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BC lottery corporation is admitting today to a privacy breach that shutdown its online gaming site. Alan waterman has our top story tonight. Alan.


Tony, BC lottery corporation is under fire tonight with questions over that security breach cause by a online overload and that’s the only problem.

When BC lottery corporation went live with north America’s first online casino gambling site, its’ target was 100 million dollars of the online pie. But with the hours of the sites launch last Thursday, it was shutdown. The corporation admits a 134 accounts were compromise and a dozens people personal information was viewed from bank accounts to credit cards.

“There wasn’t just name and address, there was other information on the sites, such as password, security questions.”

BC’s privacy commissions wants customer credit reports monitored and she’s looking forward assurance from BCLC that all is fixed before the sites goes back online. Several IT computer experts think the sites was actually hacked or swamp by a competitor. BC lottery insist that isn’t the case.

“There has been none of that happen on the site, it is strictly volume.”

This criminal knowledge professor specializes the gambling issues and he has his doubts.

“It ‘s also the fair question to be asked whether or not this is a gadget that hasn’t been explored by online hackers.”

But the privacy breach is not the only problem facing BCLC, it’s also been fined by a federal watch doc. Under federal law all casino transactions greater than ten thousand must be reported as a save guard against money launching by criminals and territories organizations. The agency has just levied and fined $670,000 against BCLC. Corporations says the problem are clerical and software system that couldn’t communicate properly with the watch doc.

“Rather than going to another jurisdiction and using their system, we had the investment been made, we just need to walk through this and get the results in place.”

BC opposition politicians think a deeper look is needed.

“They’re now all issues seem to be compounding themselves about whether in fact this lottery corporation as working the way British Columbia expected to.”

So far it seems no signs of illegal transactions, but one customers of the online site contacted the CBC complaining that their BCLC account is now frozen and they can’t access the money to pay the bills.