SBTech partners experience 72-hour downtime after cyber-security breach
No data was compromised after the sports betting supplier shut down global data centres
SBTech clients have been left without a consumer-facing website for more than 72 hours after the sports betting supplier suffered a cyber-attack on Friday.
SBTech shut down its full suite of global datacentres after being alerted to the suspected ransomware cyber-security threat in the early hours of Saturday morning.
No data was breached according to the firm as it was securely encrypted, but its 50 global clients have been left without a sports betting product.
The outage had led to rumours of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, but the prolonged downtime suggests a more complex cyber-security issue.
The supplier – in the process of being acquired by US betting giant DraftKings – is currently in the recovery phase and planning to go live again with European clients today.
A system reboot for US partners will take longer due to the regulatory process – where some states will have to grant permission to relaunch.
SBTech has since deployed third-party cyber-security firms to conduct an investigation into the breach.
SBTech’s clients include Bethard and BetFirst in Europe, and BetAmerica and The Oregon Lottery Scoreboard in the US.