[ISN] BC Lotteries kept minister in the dark about PlayNow security breach

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.

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