Sports betting technology provider SBTech has reportedly been targeted by hackers, leading to the forced outages of the company’s sports betting clients.

This weekend, online sports bettors took to the forums to speculate on what was going on at a number of sportsbooks – including 10bet, Bet.pt, Bethard, ComeOn, NetBet, Churchill Downs Inc’s BetAmerica brand, Mansion and the Oregon Lottery’s Scoreboard wagering product – all of which are currently displaying some variation of ‘under maintenance’ on their homepages.

Early speculation suggested that SBTech had fallen victim to the same type of data hacking that recently befell Curacao-licensed online sportsbook BetUS, although that site remains operational (even if most of its customers remain as unaware of any digital shenanigans as customers of SBTech clients).

Suspicion also centered on a possible distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which are traditionally deployed against sportsbooks during or immediately prior to the launch of a major sports event. However, the COVID-19 pandemic means there’s virtually no sports events left on the calendar, so the ‘ticking clock’ aspect of a DDoS attack was well and truly absent.