The United Kingdom’s National Lottery manager, Camelot, encountered a digital security event that affected a minor fraction of its user profiles – approximately 26,500 out of 9.5 million total. Camelot identified the intrusion on Monday and swiftly minimized its seriousness, indicating that only a very limited number of accounts displayed any atypical actions.
Although no funds were taken or placed into accounts, Camelot acknowledges that certain private data from the impacted profiles might have been accessed without permission. They are presently examining the source of the breach and suspect it’s probably due to users employing identical email and password pairings on the National Lottery platform as used on other, formerly compromised, sites.
Camelot is reaching out to all affected account owners and mandating they modify their passwords as a safety measure. Significantly, the malicious actors did not obtain entry to the National Lottery’s central systems or any data repositories connected to drawings or the disbursement of winnings.
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