DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former lottery security chief testifying at his ex-coworker’s fraud trial over a Hot Lotto winning ticket says the top threat to any lottery’s integrity can be its own employees.
Ed Stefan, a former chief security officer for the Urbandale-based Multi-State Lottery Association, says expert information technology employees with ill intentions can be dangerous.
The Des Moines Register reports Stefan spoke Wednesday during the trial of 52-year-old Eddie Tipton, who faces two counts of fraud.
Prosecutors say Tipton installed a malicious self-deleting computer program to pick numbers for the Dec. 23, 2010, Hot Lotto drawing. They say he bought a ticket with those numbers and unsuccessfully tried to get others to cash it without disclosing the buyer. Tipton denies the accusations.
