VICTORIA — The British Columbia government’s online gambling site was shutdown because of a privacy breach, B.C. Lottery Corp. officials confirmed in a news release Tuesday.
Company officials said that when PlayNow.com was relaunched last Thursday as the first government-sanctioned online casino in North America, 134 accounts were left exposed and open to any other player to access.
Twelve of the accounts had “a measure of sensitive personal information viewed by another player,” officials added, giving no further details.
All players who were affected by the breach have been contacted, officials said.
The announcement comes after extensive criticism from the New Democratic Party.
Shane Simpson, NDP critic for housing and social development, said the government should have been open from the start about the privacy breach.
“They’re expecting people to put significant personal information and credit card information on there,” said Simpson. “The government simply has to be more transparent if they want people to have confidence in their site.”
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