In the previous article we have explained possible ways how you can avoid the fraudulent lottery platforms in order not to lose your money. Our purpose was to make you aware of any unexpected and illegal behavior from the foul platform owners and attackers that you could challenge anytime.

Besides them, there are many other external concerns or attacks like, for example, hacks.

There are many reasons why websites get hacked, we’ll put them in 3 main categories:

1. Financial gain — personal and financial data, DDOS attacks

2. Personal challenge — for fun, practice

3. Hacktivism — page defacement

Hacking generally refers to unauthorized intrusion into a computer or a network. The person engaged in hacking activities is known as a hacker. This hacker may alter a system or security features to accomplish a goal that differs from the original purpose of the system.

Hacking can also refer to non-malicious activities, usually involving unusual or improvised alterations to equipment or processes.

Unfortunately, we experience the hacking attacks in gambling as well, they are mainly aimed at stealing players personal or financial data — see the examples mentioned below.

NATIONAL LOTTERY HACKED

UK’s National Lottery became the victim of a security breach that saw hackers attempt to access online player accounts starting March 7 2018. Officials believe that some 150 accounts may have been accessed by the hackers using a technique called “credential stuffing”, though they have notified over 10 million users to change their passwords as a precautionary measure.

National Lottery officials assure players that they don’t keep full debit or credit card details of players´ accounts. However, it’s highly likely that the hackers were able to get some email addresses and passwords — the data that fraudsters will pay a decent sum for.

CREDIT CARDS HACKED

A hacker group pulled off one of the biggest data hacks in history when they successfully stole credit card information worth 5 million from customers during 2017 and 2018. The hackers´ intention was to sell credit card information on dark web to earn money. They infected the systems with malware and kept on stealing information for more than a year while watching quietly and monitoring the situation so that nobody raised eyebrows over their suspicious activity.

Gemini, a cyber security firm, confirmed that the group behind the attack calls them self Joker Stash aka Fin7. They record a history of hacking a number of websites in the past as well. There are billions of USD lost every year caused by credit cards hack.

LOTEO ROLE AGAINST HACKERS

Since we at LOTEO also deal with the sensitive personal data, the security of the platform users is the number one priority. Moreover, we are using cryptocurrencies as a payment tool and therefore we do enhance the security of our platform from technical point of view to be highly protected against DDOS attacks. Referring to cryptocurrency hacks, we plan to use more secure cold storage method.

Moreover we are in cooperation with HACKTROPHY company which came to existence as an initiative of IT security pioneers and in response to the pressing need to do something about Internet security.

There are prestigious IT security experts behind Hacktrophy, including the founder of ESET, as well as the top businesses in the field of penetration testing and security audits — Citadelo and Nethemba.

TIPS HOW NOT TO GET HACKED

There is a well known saying that no computers or websites but people get hacked. People tend to underestimate the risk when paying with their credit card and storing data or even money on various platforms on the internet.

Therefore we are going to show you — the respected user — some tips how not to get hacked.

· Use two-factor authentication (2FA) or two-step verification everywhere you can. Do not use SMS or email since it’s easy to hack nowadays but use Google authenticator. LOTEO enables to use 2FA when you login in the platform.

· Don’t use the same password everywhere and change it regularly.

· Never expect any email from us asking for sensitive information and do not click on any links except you asked us for them. We won’t communicate general facts to our players via emails.

· Always use updated software and virus protection.

· Bookmark any website you often log in including LOTEO and be careful about phishing.

· Use cryptocurrency when paying on the internet. This way no personal data are transferred like in transactions via credit cards and there is a lower risk of information theft.

The transparent LOTEO project does not mean only that we show openly how the platform is working but also how we behave to our users. We want them to win and not to lose because of the hackers.

We believe that after reading this article you can feel more comfortable using the LOTEO platform.

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