News from across the pond: UK's National Lottery had its website hit by a DDoS attack in the final 90-minutes before that evening's winning numbers were picked.
That put an instant halt to online ticket sales, which are allowed in the UK.
The UK Lottery is operated by the Camelot group and it told The Daily Star, “Unfortunately, as experienced by many companies, the website was subject to a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) incident for around 90 minutes from 6pm.”
It also issued a Twitter apology:
There were no winners and the lottery jackpot rolled over.
So did the DDoS attacker keep someone from winning 14 million pounds? We will never know.
Some players were frustrated but others suggested on Twitter the outage may have actually saved them money.
The National Lottery's app also failed to work during the attack.
This comes on the heals of two recent hacks: the UK National Lottery's Twitter account was hacked during the summer of 2017, and hackers stole information on more than 20,000 lottery players during 2016.