Another fine against Norwegian lottery company Norsk Tipping has been upheld as the firm lumbers down a bumpy regulatory road towards the end of 2025.
Lottstift, Norway’s Lotteries and Foundation Authority, has confirmed that Norsk Tipping has been issued a penalty of NOK 10m (€851,443) for a technical failure occurring earlier this year.
The error concerned the Eurojackpot draw on 27 June 2025 and resulted in 47,000 lotto winners being incorrectly informed that they won prizes larger than the ones they had actually won.
Of these 47,000 people, 30,000 received SMS or push notifications telling them they had won the prizes. Lottstift stated that this was worthy of a penalty due to the error impacting the public’s trust in the national lottery.
Norsk Tipping received notice of the fee in September, and will now have to pay the penalty after approval by Lottstift. The error followed similar technical problems faced in April.
In connection with the Eurojackpot draw on June 27 this year, 47,000 winners were incorrectly notified that they had won excessively large prizes. 30,000 of these also received prize alerts in the form of SMS or push notifications on their phones about the large prize amounts.
In September, Norsk Tipping received a notice of a fee of up to 10 million kroner, and now the Norwegian Lottery Authority has approved the fee. The company was subsequently audited by PwC last month, with the firm analysing how and why errors may have occurred.
In its own assessment, the Lottstift revealed that the Eurojackpot error occurred because of a fault within Norks Tipping’s formula for converting prize money from the pan-European draw from Euros to Kroner. Instead of being divided by one hundred it was multiplied by one hundred, leading to players being told they had won substantially more than they had done.
“The error is a serious breach of trust. Players should be able to trust Norsk Tipping,” said Tore Bell, Department Director at the Norwegian Gambling Authority.
”It is reprehensible that the error was not discovered in connection with either testing or controls, but only after the message about the incorrect prize amount had been sent to the players.”
Lottstift’s concern about the error affecting the public’s trust in Norsk Tipping comes amid Norway continuing to be targeted by black market betting and gaming platforms, along with various other European nations.
The regulator may be concerned that customers may turn to offshore alternatives if they feel they cannot use legal gambling products like lotteries to a high standard. Norway is one of the EU’s last gambling monopolies, with nearby Finland looking set to ditch its monopoly in 2027.