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Someone who bought a Powerball ticket in Southern California has won a record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot after more than three months without anyone hitting the top prize.

The winning numbers were selected Tuesday morning, nearly 10 hours after the scheduled Monday night drawing because of problems processing sales data at one of the game鈥檚 member lotteries. Lottery officials acknowledged the unprecedented delay for such a high-profile drawing but said the game鈥檚 security process took precedence.

鈥淧rotecting the integrity of the draw is of utmost importance, and we were able to do that during this historic drawing with the cooperation of all participating lotteries,鈥� said Drew Svitko, the chairman of the Powerball Product Group and executive director of the Pennsylvania Lottery.

The winning numbers drawn Tuesday morning at the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee were: white balls 10, 33, 41, 47 and 56, and the red Powerball was 10.

The jackpot ticket was sold at Joe鈥檚 Service Center in Altadena, an unincorporated community in the foothills northeast of Los Angeles. A voicemail left for Joe鈥檚 Service Center was not immediately returned.

For selling the winning ticket, Joe鈥檚 Service Center will receive a maximum Powerball bonus of $1 million.

The $2.04 billion jackpot was by far the largest lottery prize ever won, topping the previous record $1.586 billion prize won by three Powerball ticketholders in 2016.聽聽have topped $1 billion, but none of those are close to the current prize, which started at $20 million back on Aug. 6 and has grown over three winless months. No one has won the jackpot since Aug. 3.

The jackpot was initially reported as聽聽on Monday, but the prize was increased to $2.04 billion Tuesday morning after updated calculations.

The Multi-State Lottery Association said the scheduled drawing was delayed from 10:59 p.m. EST Monday to 8:57 EST a.m. Tuesday because a participating lottery wasn鈥檛 able to process its sales data. After the lottery, which wasn鈥檛 identified, completed its pre-draw procedures, the drawing was able to go ahead.

Terry Rich, a former director of the Iowa Lottery who also served on the Powerball board, said the delay was likely due to a two-part verification system of ticket sales that makes use of an outside vendor to ensure all is in order before the game鈥檚 numbers are drawn.

鈥淓ach state must verify through a dual process that all of the sales and dollars match before the Multi-State Lottery Association can do the draw,鈥� said Rich, who headed the Iowa Lottery for 10 years and was president of the North American Lottery Association. 鈥淭his is a state-by-state procedure, which separates the whole process and has been very effective.鈥�

Rich said state lotteries deal with similar problems several times a year but the delays usually don鈥檛 attract much attention because the potential jackpots are far less than was up for grabs this week.

The winning numbers and recorded video of the drawing were posted to the Powerball鈥檚 YouTube channel.

The $2.04 billion prize is for a聽, paid annually over 29 years. Nearly all winners instead opt for cash, which was valued at $997.6 million.

The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.

The game is played in 45 states, as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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McFetridge reported from Des Moines, Iowa.