Ticketmaster hacked. 560 million customers data being held hostage.

[BigRedChief]

This has become public so I’ll post here.

Ticketmaster owner Live Nation confirmed "unauthorised activity" on its database after a group of hackers said they had stolen the personal details of 560 million customers.

ShinyHunters, the group claiming responsibility, says the stolen data includes names, addresses, phone numbers and partial credit card details from Ticketmaster users worldwide.

The hacking group is reportedly demanding a $500,000 (£400,000) ransom payment to prevent the data from being sold to other parties.
In a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Live Nation said that on 27 May "a criminal threat actor offered what it alleged to be Company user data for sale via the dark web", and that it was investigating.
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The number of customers affected by the data breach has not been confirmed by Live Nation.

The Ticketmaster breach was first revealed by hackers who posted an advert for the data on Wednesday evening. Ticketmaster refused to confirm it to reporters or customers and instead notified shareholders late on Friday.

[Titty Meat]

Ticketmaster needs to be shut down

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by Titty Meat

Ticketmaster needs to be shut down

Watch it we’ve got some big ticket master fans on here

[ptlyon]

Only $500,000?

[TLO]

BRC with the flex

[Lzen]

Look, I'm all about sticking it to Ticketmaster. Still, this is not unique to TM. This has been happening to all kinds of places , some with which I have done business. It is becoming an epidemic. It doesn't seem to matter how careful I have been to protect my identity. These businesses get hacked and now you're out on the dark web. And they just give you a free subscription to identity protection for a year. It's complete and utter bullshit.

[Wisconsin_Chief]

Originally Posted by ptlyon

Only $500,000?

My first thought as well, just pony up the dough and move on. Maybe fire your entire IT team and hire these guys while you're at it.

[Wisconsin_Chief]

Originally Posted by Lzen

It is becoming an epidemic.

It really is, and it's not being talked about enough. This has to be at least the 8th or 9th time in the last 5-10 years my name has potentially been involved in one of these. I do have identity protection through LifeLock (which everyone should probably have at this point) and I constantly monitor my own credit, but it's getting ridiculous. These companies really need to up their games.

[ptlyon]

Originally Posted by Wisconsin_Chief

My first thought as well, just pony up the dough and move on. Maybe fire your entire IT team and hire these guys while you're at it.

Must just be kids looking for totino pizza roll and power drink subsidies

[Eureka]

Well there goes my info to the dark web.

[wazu]

Originally Posted by Eureka

Well there goes my info to the dark web.

It's already there a hundred times over. Ticketmaster should tell them to get ****ed.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Lzen

Look, I'm all about sticking it to Ticketmaster. Still, this is not unique to TM. This has been happening to all kinds of places , some with which I have done business. It is becoming an epidemic. It doesn't seem to matter how careful I have been to protect my identity. These businesses get hacked and now you're out on the dark web. And they just give you a free subscription to identity protection for a year. It's complete and utter bullshit.

It's crazy how little credit card companies give a shit if someone charges shit to your card... Chase for one will ship you a new card immediately, no questions asked if you report a bad charge. It probably costs them less to deal with it than actually fix it with MFA.

I largely don't even care about these hacks... I have my credit frozen, so hopefully nobody is out there defaulting on loans on my behalf. And beyond that, I'm one of a billion stolen records out there in terms of a phone number or address.

[rydogg58]

Originally Posted by ptlyon

Only $500,000?

Seems low. This past year at my daughters college they had their servers hacked by a "foreign entity". She couldn't do shit for like a week. Lots of rumors that the college finally said **** it and paid them what they wanted.

Also, several years ago, a family member worked for an attorney in the Springfield area. His shit got taken over by hackers and he quietly paid them what they wanted to get them to leave him alone. I doubt he bragged about it in his next commercial. It must be good business for the hackers.

[wazu]

Originally Posted by rydogg58

Seems low. This past year at my daughters college they had their servers hacked by a "foreign entity". She couldn't do shit for like a week. Lots of rumors that the college finally said **** it and paid them what they wanted.

Also, several years ago, a family member worked for an attorney in the Springfield area. His shit got taken over by hackers and he quietly paid them what they wanted to get them to leave him alone. I doubt he bragged about it in his next commercial. It must be good business for the hackers.

Those sound like examples of ransomware. In that situation, you are really ****ed with your system inaccessible until you pay. And the hackers are very good at knowing just how much they can squeeze out of your organization so that you won't just say "**** it" and shut down altogether.

But these Ticketmaster guys just got a data dump of customer data, most of which has probably already been dumped repeatedly. Doesn't sound like they even got full credit card numbers. They probably calculated that Ticketmaster will pay the ransom for P.R. purposes.

[notorious]

Originally Posted by ptlyon

Only $500,000?

That's without the service fees.