Money money money..
You'd think with all the money Camelot scrape off the lottery they'd be able to secure their own website..
Camelot maintains the National Lottery website it runs is secure, following the publication of a supposed breach on an underground hacking forum. The same Romanian group that discovered SQL injection problems on the website of Kaspersky, BitDefender, and other anti-virus vendors in recent weeks has posted screen shots of …
Hmmmm! On Wed. night their Lottery rundown clock said 30 mins to place your bets - or words to that effect- at 19:15 - 15 mins before end of official betting time.
Was it already hacked at this point?
You know, with all the money Camelot scrape off the lottery, they obviously can't be arsed to secure their own website..think of the waste of profit that would entail.
Paris, because she can be ....- oh, work it out ffs.....
more like what their mate frank said would be a good idea.
There really are no such standards, what a load of hot air. Come on blind us with the details Camelot.
Why do marketing muppets, where most stuff goes straight over their heads, assume everyone else is like them? We are not all gullible spin munching morons.
Re your comment on how much they scrape off, I used to work with Camelot and they really don't get that much from a ticket. From what I remember it goes like this
75p - Prize fund
18p - Tax
5p - Retailer
2p - Camelot (including running of machines etc)
The proportions are the same on scratchcards, no matter how much the card costs.
That said, they still have plenty o cash, so they should be securing their website. I had an e-mail from the recently saying that the card registered on my account expires next month, which is odd as I don't have a card expiring next month. Perhaps they truly are incompetent
First: "Camelot can confirm that the main player site at www.national-lottery.co.uk has not been compromised" clearly indicates that they are admitting that some other site DID get hacked.
Doesn't really matter how minor it is, if it revealed useful passwords.
@Ben:
From memory, the prize fund is only about a third of the income. I note that your list does not include any 'Good Cause' money, which also runs at circa one third, so there is something wrong with your figures.
You know, it's really not that hard to look something up:
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/information.do?info=wheremoneygoes (first result on Google: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=national+lottery+revenue)
Where the money goes:
50% Prizes
28% Good causes
12% Lottery duty to Government
5% Commission to retailers (6% for scratchcards)
4% Operating costs
0.3-0.5% Profit