Technical glitch forces BCLC to shut down PlayNow.com

British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) has admitted that it has been forced to shut down its recently re-launched online gaming site, PlayNow.com, after discovering a technical glitch that allowed more than 100 players to access other players' accounts. BCLC said that due to "tremendous interest and traffic" associated with the launch of online casino games on PlayNow.com last week, the lottery's servers experienced load issues causing what is technically referred to as a "data crossover". The [...]