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More than 50 sportsbooks powered by the leading software provider SBTech went offline over the weekend, after being cyberattacked! According to various reports SBTech is close bring every single one of those attacked sites back online. At least due to COVID-19 pandemic and the suspension of all major sporting events the losses for SBTech partners where minimal.
This affected sites across the world, including Churchill Downs’ BetAmerica brand and the Oregon Lottery’s Score Board product in the US. In Europe, the likes of 10bet, Bet.pt, Bethard, ComeOn, NetBet and Virgin Bet are all currently offline.
The threat has now been resolved, and SBTech is coming now to the end of a recovery phase. All services have been rebuilt, while the provider claims that all customer data was securely encrypted, and there has been no data breach.
This will be followed by quality assurance checks and testing before it can begin bringing more than 50 SBTech-powered sites around the world back online, subject to regulatory clearance.
According to a message towards one partner’s site the relaunches would begin by 8AM today on March 31. Some complications had slowed the process, but that it remained on track to be completed on date.
