Historic $1.9 Billion Powerball Drawing Delayed, Security Protocols Blamed
The record book $1.9 one million million Powerball drafting was delayed Mon nighttime due to a security department communications protocol glitch, intelligence reports said. The Nov. 7 drawing may non accept shoes until Tues morning, Calif. lottery officials said.
Details most the understanding for the glitch were not straight off known. But the drawing inward 1 unidentified tell on the face of it requisite extra clip to cognitive operation fine sales, the Multi-State Lottery Commission told CNN in a statement.
The California Lottery said the detain was not caused by drawing trading operations inwards the Golden State.
“Powerball has strict security measures requirements that must live met by all 48 lotteries before a draftsmanship tin can occur,” the Calif. Lottery said inwards a Tues morning time tweet.
When the required protection protocols are complete, the draftsmanship testament be performed below the supervising of drawing protection officials and independent auditors. Winning numbers will be posted as before long as they are available,” the CA Lottery added.
As of betimes Tuesday, drawing officials did non waiver an estimated time for the drawing. Monday night’s drawing was supposed to occupy set at 10:59 pm ET.
Prior Powerball Glitches
Glitches hold struck Powerball trading operations inwards the past. For instance, as of Sunday, the Powerball website was overloaded with increased traffic.
The Powerball website was offline Lord's Day morning, with only when a landing pageboy displaying Sat night’s winning numbers.
Also, Monday’s delayed drawing is not the world-class for the Powerball lottery.
For example, on April 8, 2022, a Powerball drawing off was delayed for over quaternity hours because of the need of I say to run into surety protocols. In that prior drawing, Powerball said that ace drawing required “additional processing time,” intelligence reports said.
While we apologise for the detain inward delivering the information to the public, the additional clip enables us to ensure that we are reporting the functionary and verified list of prize winners,” the drawing surgical operation said inward April.
Historic Drawing
On Saturday, no just the ticket matched the five whitened balls and lone redness Powerball to win the jackpot. That jackpot was near $1.6 billion.
Previously, the largest Powerball ever so won was a January 2016 drawing. Three winners shared a $1.586 1000000000000 jackpot.
The largest single US drawing win took station inward Oct 2018, when a Mega Millions player inward South Carolina won a $1.537 one thousand million jackpot.
Powerball players across the US were thirstily awaiting the relinquish of Nov. 7’s winning numbers.
That is despite the chance of a bingle just the ticket hitting the jackpot existence only if almost 1 inwards 292 million, Powerball officials make revealed.
Still, one prior winner, Timothy Schultz, who lives inward Iowa, won $28 million inwards 1999 inward the Ioway Powerball. He worked in a business organisation and sold himself the winning ticket.
“I know better than anyone that it only when takes one fine to win,” Schultz told Fox News. “Your lifespan canful change inwards an instant.”
Players inwards Illinois, Michigan, Georgia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, North Dakota, Second Earl of Guilford Carolina, and New Hampshire down are afforded the convenience of purchasing a Powerball fine online. Players inward other states that get hold of constituent inwards Powerball need to lead to a stage business that sells lottery tickets.
Powerball tickets are sold in 45 states, Washington, DC, as considerably as Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.