Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-11-30 00:00:00
Affected organization: The National Lottery
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: About 26,500 National Lottery accounts are feared to have been hacked, according to its operator Camelot. However the firm says it does not believe its own systems has been compromised, but rather that the players' login details had been stolen from elsewhere.