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follow-up: BC Lotteries kept minister in the dark about PlayNow security breach
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:05:55 -0500 (CDT)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.vancouversun.com/Lotteries+kept+minister+dark+about+PlayNow+security+breach/3523910/story.html By Chat Skelton Vancouver Sun September 14, 2010 BC Lotteries CEO Michael Graydon failed to immediately inform the government about the July 15 security breach at its online casino, PlayNow, according to internal BCLC documents obtained by The Vancouver Sun. The lottery corporation has been criticized for initially telling the public the PlayNow site went down due to high traffic, taking five days to admit the real reason was a security breach that compromised players' personal information. Now, internal BCLC emails obtained by The Sun through the Freedom of Information Act, reveal the public wasn't the only one kept in the dark about the true cause of the site's shutdown. Housing Minister Rich Coleman, the minister responsible for BCLC, wasn't told the whole story right away, either. The e-mails make clear that BCLC knew within hours of PlayNow's launch on July 15 that it was having serious security problems with the site. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss-discuss Mailing List (dataloss-discuss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Get business, compliance, IT and security staff on the same page with CREDANT Technologies: The Shortcut Guide to Understanding Data Protection from Four Critical Perspectives. The eBook begins with considerations important to executives and business leaders. http://www.credant.com/campaigns/ebook-chpt-one-web.php
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