Brightstar Lottery, born out of a July 2025 rebranding for slot machine giant International Game Technology (IGT) after it sold its gaming and digital arm, has confirmed the scale of a 2024 cyberattack.
News emerged Wednesday that Brightstar’s Associate General Counsel Macaire Piscione wrote Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha on October 3 to warn him that “an unauthorized third party” accessed and disrupted parts of his client’s internal corporate system on November 17.
6,354 Rhode Island residents
Piscione’s letter to AG Neronha was to inform him that Brightstar had completed its review of the IGT cyberattack on August 21 and discovered that 103,879 people were impacted. These included, according to the Rhode Island Current, 6,354 Rhode Island residents.
Under Rhode Island law, if 500 people are impacted by a data breach, the affected business must notify the AG.
According to a Brightstar spokesperson, most of those affected were current and ex-employees of the Providence-headquartered IGT. Brightstar, meanwhile, is extending industry-standard offers of 24 months free credit monitoring, fraud detection, or dark web monitoring to those affected.
Brightstar remains the Rhode Island Lottery’s exclusive lottery equipment and technology supplier, despite moving to a new headquarters in London, England.
