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The Play Now online casino gambling site has officially shut down this week because of a security compromise on the site that leaked personal information for certain player accounts. The initial issue crashed the newly launched gambling site on its launch day and a relaunch of the site this past week indicated that the player accounts were still actually compromised. The Play Now site was the British Lottery Corporation’s first attempt to operate a gambling site that can compete with the offshore online casinos that are currently active the in Canadian internet gambling market. The information on the exact extent and nature of the security breach has still not been released by the BC Lottery Corporation so there is simply speculation on a large portion of the breach.

What is known though is that the account breach is still active and the Lottery Corporation has not yet found a way to overcome the security issues when the site is active. When the online casino relaunched last week the officials had to immediately shut the site down because gamblers other than the account holders were still able to access player accounts and important player security data was visible through player accounts. This debacle is actually quite uncommon at the online casinos that launch on experienced platforms and from well respected gaming sites.

Initial information indicates that the site hackers and security breach compromised some player accounts and at least $8,000 was wagered illegally through the accounts by non-account holders. Although the site is currently shut down the BC Lottery Corporation has actually announced that it plans to once again launch the online casino when the new security measures are implemented – this situation acts as a cautionary tale to the other Canadian provincial governments that are planning to launch state-run gambling sites.