{"id":174212,"date":"2024-01-01T22:20:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T03:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=174212"},"modified":"2024-01-01T22:20:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T03:20:35","slug":"cybersecurity-incident-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/01\/01\/cybersecurity-incident-under-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity incident under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CLEVELAND &#8212; Very little information has been released about a recent incident involving the Ohio Lottery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOn December 24, 2023, the Ohio Lottery experienced a cybersecurity incident and quickly engaged professionals experienced in handling these types of incidents to assist with an investigation and to assess the full scope of information impacted, lottery officials stated in a press release. \u201cThe Ohio Lottery has notified law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The release also said while the cybersecurity incident investigation is ongoing, the State reiterated that if any consumer data was compromised, it will take all measures to assist with credit monitoring to protect Ohioans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will notify all known affected individuals as quickly as possible and in accordance with applicable laws,\u201d lottery officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident did not involve any Ohio Lottery games or the technology systems on which the Lottery operates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe integrity of our games is the top priority, and it is safe to continue to purchase tickets,\u201d the release stated. \u201cWinning tickets over $599 can be mailed to the Ohio Lottery Central Office in Cleveland for payment. The Lottery is working diligently to restore all cashing options in the very near future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff CLEVELAND &#8212; Very little information has been released about a recent incident involving the Ohio Lottery. \u201cOn December 24, 2023, the Ohio Lottery experienced a cybersecurity incident and quickly engaged professionals experienced in handling these types of incidents to assist with an investigation and to assess the full scope of information impacted, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-15 17:53:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174214,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174212\/revisions\/174214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}