How Rob Sand Caught the Criminal Who Committed the Largest Lottery Fraud in History

April 4, 2020
Hosted by Rebecca Herold

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Episode Description

Hear Rebecca speak with Rob Sand, the lawyer who used his tech savvy as the Asst Attorney General for Iowa to successfully prosecute Eddie Tipton, who committed the largest & longest occurring lottery fraud in US history while employed as an IT worker, and was promoted to Information Security Officer, at the Multi-State Lottery Association where he committed his crimes. Eddie exploited his positions of trust to rig the lottery winning drawings, totaling more than $24 million, at least five different times. A few topics and questions Rob covers include: 1. How was Eddie Tipton first identified as a suspect? How was he caught? 2. Exactly what did Tipton do to enable him to commit this fraud? 3. How did Tipton commit the fraud so long without anyone noticing? 4. What were the key pieces of evidence used for the case? 5. What changes did the Iowa Lottery make as a result of this incident? 6. What surprised Rob most about this crime? See more in the blog post at: https://bit.ly/2UDnDRg

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Rebecca Herold

Rebecca has 25-plus years of systems engineering, information security, privacy and compliance experience, is CEO of The Privacy Professor(R) consultancy she founded in 2004, and Co-Founder/CEO of Privacy Security Brainiacs online services, where Rebecca engineered the systems and created all the content, including automated risk assessments and training courses. Rebecca has authored 20 books, contributed to dozens of other books, and published hundreds of articles. Rebecca led the NIST Smart Grid Privacy Subgroup for 7 years, a member of the NIST Privacy Framework development team, and is a NIST Cybersecurity for IoT Program team member. Rebecca has provided expert witness services for HIPAA compliance, IoT security, privacy and location tracking, retirement community members’ personal data misuse, and other cases. Rebecca was co-founder and officer of the IEEE P1912 Privacy and Security Architecture for Consumer Wireless Devices Working Group, and is on numerous advisory boards. Rebecca was Adjunct Professor for the Norwich University MSISA program for 9 years. Rebecca has received numerous awards, including named as a Top 100 Women Fighting Cybercrime and a Cybersecurity Woman of the Year. Rebecca has provided keynotes on 5 continents and is frequently interviewed on TV and in international publications. Rebecca holds the following certifications: FIP, CDPSE, CISSP, CISA, CISM, CIPT, CIPM, CIPP/US, FLMI. Ponemon Privacy Fellow. Rebecca is based in Des Moines, Iowa, USA.


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