Canada’s British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) has paid out nearly $1.1m to customers after uncovering a software glitch on its online gambling site PlayNow.com.

In a statement issued last week, BCLC said a review had uncovered an incorrect configuration setting on its Wizard of Odds slots title that failed to alert players of a progressive jackpot win. The glitch affected a total of nine players who should have been awarded varying jackpots totaling $1,088,120 between July 16, 2014 and June 10, 2015.

BCLC said it removed the offending slots title from its site on June 10, after which it conducted a review of the past 11 months’ activity. BCLC says the game was found to qualify only those players who bet one dollar or more per spin, when the game was supposed to have no minimum bet requirement. BCLC claimed to have found no problems with the game’s random number generator.

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