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A cybercriminal was jailed for nine months for committing crimes against the UK National Lottery.
According to the National Crime Agency of Great Britain (NCA), 29-year-old Anwar Batson from London was convicted of fraud and four violations under the Computer Misuse Act of 1990. The man was arrested in May 2017 and initially denied involvement, claiming he was a victim of hackers. But he later pleaded guilty after investigators discovered conversations between him and other participants in the crime on his computer.
According to the NCA, Batson used the Sentry MBA to launch attacks against Camelot, the companies that manage the national lottery.
Other individuals who attacked Camelot together with Batson included 27-year-old Daniel Thompson from Newcastle and 21-year-old Idris Kayode Akinvunmi from Birmingham. Thompson and Akinwunmi were sentenced in July 2018 to eight and four months in prison, respectively.
When in November 2016, Camelot announced an attack on the National Lottery, the company said that hackers received about 26,500 accounts. The NCA reports that there are approximately 9 million entries in the National Lottery's customer database.
Earlier, Camelot claimed that the attackers did not break into any of his systems, and the company assured that the affected customers would not suffer any financial losses as a result of the cyber attack.
However, on Friday January 10, the NCA announced that Akinwunmi had stolen £ 13 from one player’s lottery account, whose username and password he received from Batson.
According to the National Crime Agency of Great Britain (NCA), 29-year-old Anwar Batson from London was convicted of fraud and four violations under the Computer Misuse Act of 1990. The man was arrested in May 2017 and initially denied involvement, claiming he was a victim of hackers. But he later pleaded guilty after investigators discovered conversations between him and other participants in the crime on his computer.
According to the NCA, Batson used the Sentry MBA to launch attacks against Camelot, the companies that manage the national lottery.
Other individuals who attacked Camelot together with Batson included 27-year-old Daniel Thompson from Newcastle and 21-year-old Idris Kayode Akinvunmi from Birmingham. Thompson and Akinwunmi were sentenced in July 2018 to eight and four months in prison, respectively.
When in November 2016, Camelot announced an attack on the National Lottery, the company said that hackers received about 26,500 accounts. The NCA reports that there are approximately 9 million entries in the National Lottery's customer database.
Earlier, Camelot claimed that the attackers did not break into any of his systems, and the company assured that the affected customers would not suffer any financial losses as a result of the cyber attack.
However, on Friday January 10, the NCA announced that Akinwunmi had stolen £ 13 from one player’s lottery account, whose username and password he received from Batson.