Almost two weeks after sports betting and lottery provider SBTech was hit by a cyberattack that forced it to shut down its global data centers, several US-regulated online gambling sites remain out of action. BetAmerica has been “currently upgrading” for the past two weeks, a euphemism for “our software provider has been bulldozed by a sophisticated ransomware attack.” The length of the outage is unprecedented for the industry. Online gaming operators have routinely been targeted by cybercriminals since at least the early 2000s, but these are usually short-lived DDoS attacks, designed to temporarily disrupt normal services while companies are held to ransom. As of Thursday evening, Churchill Downs’ BetAmerica — which relies on SBTech software for all its online services, including sports betting and casino — was still offline, leaving customers unable to access their funds.